Discussion for article #227770
It’s the edible pot industry which makes candy bars with 23 doses each.
They’re being irresponsible by putting multiple doses in one candy bar. They should focus on one-dose-per-bar instead of telling consumers to be responsible.
A man in Wisconsin, Jason N. Hetke, is being prosecuted because he got a pot candy bar in Colorado and brought it home and put it in his dresser. His 15 year old daughter took it from his dresser and ate it at school. She collapsed since it had 23 doses.
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What a wonderful idea to resurrect those hilarious old ads and recycle them! Let me be the first to coin a political ad phrase to be used against conservative hyperfreakish fear mongering:
This is your brain. This is your brain on dregs. Don’t vote based on conservative suicide disinformation policies - Just Say KNOW!
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There’s a lot of hype in the story - including claims that “she almost
died”. Nope - she got pretty seriously stoned - nowhere near death.
Now, if she’d consumed the equivalent overdose of alcohol - she
would be in a lot more trouble.
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But are the lab rats happy?
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How hard was it to find a MoDo duplicate?
OK. But if that candy bar had one dose instead of 23, then she wouldn’t have collapsed, and her father wouldn’t be facing prosecution.
“It then directs viewers to consumeresposibly.org,…”
Kristen Wyatt, drunk or high?
I agree, one dose per bar would be proper, and not at all hard to make.
But I do recall as a youngster eating a dozen Hershey bars in one sitting, so for some of us, it wouldn’t fix the “problem”.
Sweet edibles in childproof packaging will only prove once again that “childproof” is an industry myth.
I read MoDo’s column and I thought watta wuss. How disconnected do you have to be as a journalist to have a completely bad experience of your own making and then pass judgment on everyone else because of it?
This is the brilliant, insightful reporting we have come to receive from the mainstream these days.
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Looking under a few bridges doesn’t take that long.
Never been a fan of edibles. Stick to vape or smoke and it’s almost impossible to overindulge.
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I have NEVER seen anyone smoke enough pot to do what I’ve seen drunks do nearly every time they get certifiably drunk.
There are people who, every day of their lives, drink themselves into a stupor that no pothead has ever achieved. But we still compare these “drugs” as if we are comparing apples to apples.
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The MoDos and the MoDon’ts…This is your brain on old media.
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MoDo proves that the stupid is not confined to pot smokers, drinkers, tobacco users, republicans…etc…
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It only took a minute at the drugstore to find the right hair color.
wow finaly Maureen dowd is useful for something after all…who woulda thought???
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MoDo proves that she herself is stupid. There is nothing intrinsically stupid with the others in your list.
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What is it that I find so irritating and repulsive about Maureen Dowd? Oh yeah–everything. She is the very definition of smarmy, know it all ain’t-I-just-adorable arrogance. So her facade of sophistication is all a fraud. Maureen, Baudelaire and Dumas are laughing at you from their graves. I’ve observed cannabis consumers for 50 years. Only the rankest, callow, naif lies all alone in a luxurious hotel room and frets about death from eating a cookie or a candy bar. You know, it’s like Dr Hunter S Thompson told us: DRUGS ARE NOT FOR AMATEURS! Leave it to people who know how to handle it. Your first time with Whiskey, did you drink a gallon? Champagne–did you drink a Magnum? If you decided to take up jogging, would you go out and run 20 miles the first time you put on your running shoes? Even the Epicureans counselled moderation, Mo, and the Buddha advocated The Middle Way 500 years earlier. Ever heard of it–you know, it’s in between the two extremes.