“New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd traveled to Colorado to cover the state’s legalized pot scene — and it didn’t go very well. Now, Dowd’s “bad trip” is quickly becoming the stuff of Internet legend. In Denver, Dowd sampled a marijuana candy bar (this is research after all), and when she didn’t feel anything at first, she ate some more.”
Read more from Huffington Post here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/03/maureen-dowd-tries-marijuana_n_5442224.html
Cenk Uygur (http://www.twitter.com/cenkuygur) of The Young Turks breaks down Maureen Dowd’s bad trip. Have you ever ate a marijuana edible? Do you have any advice for Maureen. Tell us about your experience with edibles in the comment section below.
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really?? looks more like she went to Colorado to create bad press.
my advice to maureen dowd is to research your god damned subject before you make a fool of yourself in public. if you had been researching the pharmaceutical industry you would be over dosed and DEAD right now.
An Open Letter: To The New York Times
Recently an esteemed reporter from your stable of fine reporters traveled to the State of Colorado in an endeavor to report upon the established legal marijuana industry there. This is certainly a historic and news worthy phenominon that deserves the utmost and best of attention from the finest observers, chroniclers, and journalists of our time to analyze, record, and report upon.
Your very own Maureen Dowd did not do this. Like an arrogant and errant school child she proceeded into town, apparently did no previous research on her topic, talked to nobody local and in the know, about her subject, and like a toddler out of sight of its parent, proceeded to pick up strange things and pop them into her mouth. To her dismay she discovered what anybody who had taken a half hour of travel time to read, could have told her. Popping random and unknown things into your mouth indiscriminately is not a good ideal and typically leads to bad ends. This is information any 5 year old could understand and repeat with no second thought, and which nearly every five year old has mastered before beginning kindergarten.
I believe this sets a very dangerous precedent, makes a mockery of Ms. Dowd’s profession and gravely tarnishes your most esteemed reputation as an outstanding news publication. If there is any benefit to this unfortunate display of arrogance and ignorance it is that anybody who has read her article now knows, by shameful example, exactly what Not to do in most any situation concerning drugs, medicine, food, journalism, traveling, and most anything else in life requiring an iota of common sense.
I only wonder that if Ms. Dowd had been doing a paper on the Pharmecutical Industry if she might not be dead right now and I am glad for her sake that she chose such a safe and nearly idiot proof topic as marijuana to choke her professional reputation to death upon.
This being said, and with the best wishes to you and to your esteemed Ms. Dowd. I do believe that for her own safety, for the public safety, and for the common good, that Ms. Dowd should be considered for removal from your staff and from professional journalism immediately