You’re supposed to share your candy girl.
I think I may have been the only person on Earth who really did want to get high with Maureen Dowd
That’s one of the best take-downs of the Dowdster I’ve read in a long time. Well said, Weed Sherpa. Well said, indeed.
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From Dowd’s account of her experience from eating edible pot, you would have thought she had dropped acid or smoked PCP. I think Dowd was being a drama queen x’s 10 in order to sensationalize her column. I’m really surprised the so called “Weed Sherpa” didn’t address Dowd’s hyperbole description of her pot high.
When I switched from smoking to vaporizing cannabis, I learned that the remains of my vaping can be made into edibles. I am not young, nor new, so I researched this a great deal (made fun reading while stoned). I learned how to make quality edibles, and then went about making them. I learned that I was supposed to start small, so I did. I’m glad, as it was pretty intense (I watched the whole Super Bowl. I enjoyed it. It was the first football game I watched in my life). I decided that, despite having a good time, edibles were not for me. The problem is time. I have kids, and I don’t want to be intoxicated around them, which is easy with smoking (wait till bedtime), but hard with edibles.
My mother, on the other hand, fell in love with them. I advised her about dosage, and encouraged experimentation starting small. A friend of hers, who never smoked in his life, learned to enjoy cannabis with edibles as well, and has learned about how his body reacts by paying careful attention to timing and dosage.
The point of this is that edibles do have a place, and can be enjoyed, even by post-menopausal liberal women with strong opinions (my mother). I do think that some simple regulations, such as requiring small dose packaging, could improve safety. Increasing the level of communication to new users is a good thing, but as Ms. Dowd demonstrated, this can often fall on deaf ears.
Who knew that the legalization of pot would lead to conservative marijuana abuse?
Hey conservatives, pot is for hippies–didn’t you get the memo?
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Ms. Dowd is not really a conservative. She is just really bad at being a liberal.
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Conservative by any other name. I’ve read and mocked her for years.
Dowd wrote that Democratic candidate “Al Gore is so feminized and diversified and ecologically correct that he’s practically lactating” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maureen_Dowd
Not exactly a liberal…
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Her description is accurate for overdosing on Edibles (I think, I have never overdosed). It really is a different experience than smoking a joint.
Having read Matt Brown’s intelligent, informed comments, I can’t imagine any person with an elementary grasp of basic English could fail to know the rules of the road. But of course…Dowd.
Actually, I’d be happy to see him run for national office.
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I don’t believe Dowd’s story what-so-ever, she’s lying through her teeth about her “experience”. Her history of untruths in her column can serve as a character witness.
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Someone should do a parody video with Maureen on a “three-hour tour” with an adapted version of the Gilligan’s Island theme song. That would be hilarious!
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Indeed. And let us not forget that she seemed really anxious to see the Romney documentary.
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When I was 15 I lived in Santo Domingo where there are no underage drinking laws. The American kids would go to the dance clubs at night, and those newly arrived, such as myself would abuse the new found freedom into total drunken oblivion, while the Dominican kids, who grew up like this and used alcohol casually and thoughtfully, and moderately, thought we American kids were funny. They’d lead us to the parking lot and tell us to get undressed for bed. It was obvious we did not understand how to ‘titrate the dose’ and were instinctively going to extremes with this new freedom–until bad experiences taught us the wisdom of moderation. Maureen Dowd’s ‘Night of Terrors’ made me think of this. What is she doing getting high all alone? Unless she’s meditating in the mountains, it’s something you share in a social context.
Dowd wrote an (obviously) sensationalized account of an irresponsible personal experiment that may or may not have ever occurred. The internet is all abuzz with it, so I guess she hit what she aimed for. Attention.
It is sad what passes for journalism today.
I think I may have been the only person on Earth who really did want to get high with Maureen Dowd
Ha! You’re probably right.
Still, notice how sane and reasonable and competent this guy sounds, just speaking off the cuff on a subject he actually knows something about.
Now compare and contrast that with anything you’ve ever read from Maureen Dowd, on any subject.
Great interview, Catherine.
the only person on Earth who really did want to get high with Maureen Dowd
At least he had her type pegged right away…
Dowd’s problem is that she is a chocoholic. It’s high time we did something for the poor people who have that affliction.
The context is always what Ms. Dowd thinks it is. This has been a major problem with her career.