[2Wycked]

Story here. Some funny Twitter responses here.

Quote:

Exactly six months ago, David Brooks wrote a column arguing against the legalization of marijuana because after smoking pot "for a little while in my teenage years," he's now over it. At the time, it seemed like a pretty edgy drug admission for a New York Times columnist, but with the paper's top editors caught up in their own squabbling, their staffers are acting out by experimenting with more intense forms of weed.

In her latest column, Maureen Dowd worries about Colorado "unleashing a drug as potent as marijuana on a horde of tourists of all ages and tolerance levels seeking a mellow buzz." Dowd knows the dangers firsthand, because while sitting alone in a Denver hotel room recently, she "nibbled off the end" of a pot candy bar, "and then, when nothing happened, nibbled some more." She was left "curled up in a hallucinatory state for the next eight hours."

[renotime]

Strangely enough I have the same reaction when I read the New York Times.

[Slick Shimmer]

When I first got exposed to real weed, I would get spins so bad it felt like I was being thrown from a car at high speed. I can imagine it'd be worse for an old bag like her.

[teh_skeeze]

This is like the morons who claim any weed that's good is laced after they smoke it. She should have gone with some Mexican brick. Also, set and setting.

[monster]

I actually get the same reaction too. I think about 5% of everyone gets this reaction. 95% of everyone loves it and it relaxes them, acts as an analgesic and chills them out. i wish it did this to me.

I'm not dumb enough to generalize that my experience with weed is what everyone experiences and consequently, I don't cry wolf like Down. I know that everyone reacts differently to different psychoactive substances, just like with medicine. It's the same thing: some people are allergic to penicillin while most penicillin is a life-saver. Similarly, some people react madly too weed while to most it's great.

But on the whole that piece isn't bad. At least she tried it herself and she's not condemning weed like a lot of pundits, but rather calling for more label warnings, which is rather sensible actually if, for nothing else, as a legal disclaimer against frivolous lawsuits from the suppliers themselves. It's only a matter of time before all class action weed lawsuits become popular.

[Deluge]

(06-04-2014 08:51 PM)2Wycked Wrote:  

She was left "curled up in a hallucinatory state for the next eight hours."

I need to get my hands on these Colorado candy bars.

[The Lizard of Oz]

I've never been able to completely dislike Maureen Dowd even though she's a f'ing annoying bitch.

This is because she is so entirely a woman, and even though she tries to roll with the times, a throwback type -- a witty and gossipy society female who loves men to death. She has always been obsessed with alpha guys, and would be charmed and disarmed by a true player within 5 minutes. She is a woman no better than she should be (great expression, have always loved it) but no worse than these creatures have always been in a certain amiable way. The obligatory feminist chatter truly does not reach very deeply with her. And I believe she was fuckable and probably a decent lay when younger.

[Cattle Rustler]

(06-04-2014 09:30 PM)Deluge Wrote:  

(06-04-2014 08:51 PM)2Wycked Wrote:  

She was left "curled up in a hallucinatory state for the next eight hours."

I need to get my hands on these Colorado candy bars.

Considering what happened last time you took Acid.....

...It'll be interesting to see what this brings...

[Dusty]

(06-04-2014 09:44 PM)The Lizard of Oz Wrote:  

I've never been able to completely dislike Maureen Dowd even though she's a f'ing annoying bitch.

This is because she is so entirely a woman, and even though she tries to roll with the times, a throwback type -- a witty and gossipy society female who loves men to death. She has always been obsessed with alpha guys, and would be charmed and disarmed by a true player within 5 minutes. She is a woman no better than she should be (great expression, have always loved it) but no worse than these creatures have always been in a certain amiable way. The obligatory feminist chatter truly does not reach very deeply with her. And I believe she was fuckable and probably a decent lay when younger.

Yeah, Michael Douglas was smashing her back in his prime.

I remember 10+ years ago she was lamenting never being married, and how her career probably was the cause. I remember her pointing out that the president at the time (George W) married a librarian and making the point that most powerful men (read: alphas) usually go for subservient women and don't want a "career" woman.

It made me feel proud to be a man, and so Goddam happy I'm not a woman.

[Drazen]

I tried these dispensary weed brownies last summer before a Cypress Hill/311 concert. It completely fucked me up, time was going super super slow.

And I was smoking out all weekend out of a little vaporizer and joints before and after that and that just chilled me out, so it was definitely the method of delivery. The pot brownies are super potent and sneak up on you. I had part of one (like 1/4) the next week and went out to dinner, I couldn't even drive my car back home, I had to have my buddy drive it back for me. Again, time was just going super super slow.

[Days of Broken Arrows]

This is like when I had to take pain pills for kidney stones and people went insane warning me: they'll make me addicted, they'll make me constipated (ew), and they'll make me puke.

They did none of the above. In fact, they made me feel great.

The moral? We are all biologically different. What affects Maureen Dowd one way might not affect someone else the same way. It's narcissistic to think just because you react to something everyone else will.

Come to think of it, her drug reaction was like her columns. Totally self-absorbed and uninformed that there might be people in the world who have different opinions and experiences that are equally valid.

[germanico]

[Sweet Jones]

You should have replied that throwing up on oxy actually feels good, which is true haha

Maureen has herself to blame for not informing herself of what she was putting in her body before putting it in her body. It is not hard to find out that edible weed has a long onset and can be very overwhelming compared to smoked weed. Also, only an idiot continues to redose before the first dose even hits especially when the substance is unfamiliar to them. So really she only has herself to blame

[The Beast1]

What a dumb ass. You never EVER start off with an edible first. You smoke first. Edibles are far more potent and take at least 30-45 minutes to feel its effect.

Bitch should have started out with hal of the brownief. She deserved her anxiety attack.

Idiots like this are why legalization is difficult. What she did was like a teenager taking 8 shots in fifteen minute. No wonder you got fucked up.

[AnonymousBosch]

Bitch is a lightweight.

[Deluge]

(06-04-2014 10:14 PM)Cattle Rustler Wrote:  

(06-04-2014 09:30 PM)Deluge Wrote:  

(06-04-2014 08:51 PM)2Wycked Wrote:  

She was left "curled up in a hallucinatory state for the next eight hours."

I need to get my hands on these Colorado candy bars.

Considering what happened last time you took Acid.....

...It'll be interesting to see what this brings...

Me posting a thread about how sweaty my balls were was tame as fuck compared to all of this shit Posting while tripping is unsurprisingly a bit of a problem for the class of 2420...

[Cattle Rustler]

(06-05-2014 06:04 AM)Deluge Wrote:  

Me posting a thread about how sweaty my balls were was tame as fuck compared to all of this shit Posting while tripping is unsurprisingly a bit of a problem for the class of 2420...

Hahaha, yeah. Many of 2420s are turnt up!

Also, why class of 2420?

[kbell]

That's how long he intends to stay in college.

[Deluge]

(06-05-2014 02:28 PM)Cattle Rustler Wrote:  

(06-05-2014 06:04 AM)Deluge Wrote:  

Me posting a thread about how sweaty my balls were was tame as fuck compared to all of this shit Posting while tripping is unsurprisingly a bit of a problem for the class of 2420...

Hahaha, yeah. Many of 2420s are turnt up!

Also, why class of 2420?

The crew wanted to show some solidarity, but more than half of us ain't even using it haha. I wanted to make it class of 2014, but there was too much disagreement. So we compromised on 2420, keeps it lighthearted.

[Ziltoid]

"There's only two types of people who are against drugs: the people who have never done drugs and the people who really sucked at doing drugs." - Doug Stanhope

[Col. Tigh]

(06-04-2014 09:20 PM)monster Wrote:  

I actually get the same reaction too. I think about 5% of everyone gets this reaction. 95% of everyone loves it and it relaxes them, acts as an analgesic and chills them out. i wish it did this to me.

I'm not dumb enough to generalize that my experience with weed is what everyone experiences and consequently, I don't cry wolf like Down. I know that everyone reacts differently to different psychoactive substances, just like with medicine. It's the same thing: some people are allergic to penicillin while most penicillin is a life-saver. Similarly, some people react madly too weed while to most it's great.

But on the whole that piece isn't bad. At least she tried it herself and she's not condemning weed like a lot of pundits, but rather calling for more label warnings, which is rather sensible actually if, for nothing else, as a legal disclaimer against frivolous lawsuits from the suppliers themselves. It's only a matter of time before all class action weed lawsuits become popular.

Not just you. Same happened to me on my first time trying marijuana--I tripped my balls off, went numb from the legs down, thought time was expanding to infinity, and felt certain I was going to die with a deep dread for eight hours. It was one of the worst experiences of my life.

Does that mean I'm anti-weed? Naw, I'm sure most people do just fine on it. It just ain't for everyone.

[StudebacherHoch]

Another obvious "hit piece" by the prohibitionist faction as they see the walls come a tumblin' down! That said, as a pot smoker of 45+ years...edibles are a bad way to consume cannabis OMHO.

[Basil Ransom]

Maureen Dowd tells us she's a disrespectful cunt customer - she has a low Uber rating because she makes her Uber drivers wait on her. So much for being a progressive ally of the common working man.

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/05/24/opi...r-mad.html

Personally, I am super scrupulous about being out when my driver arrives, it's just common decency.

[godfather dust]

I like smoking weed but edibles are no good IMO. It's too easy to over do it. I've had paranoid reactions from edibles not too different than this bitch, and like I said I like smoking.

[Oz.]

I ate almost two entire brownies once big ass ones too, I was so stoned that after like six hours of not even knowing what the fuck was going on I fell asleep and woke up like thirteen hours later.

Took a dump that morning and it smelled like marijuana, pretty cool.