Student fell to death after eating pot cookie (Denver CO)

Associated Press ^ | Apr 2, 2014 12:21 PM EDT

[Olog-hai]

The Denver coroner says an exchange student from Wyoming fell to his death after eating a marijuana cookie, the first reported death linked to marijuana since the drug became legal for recreational use in Colorado in January.

Nineteen-year-old Levy Thamba died after falling from the balcony of a Denver hotel on March 11. …

[Jeff Chandler]

Well there you go.

[Red Badger]

The cookie didn’t kill him.....................

[BFM]

One word....... Darwin.

[Ghost of SVR4]

I think it was the sudden stop that probably killed him.

[rktman]

Medicinal use no doubt. Probably why the guy in front of us at a Foghat concert Saturday night felt obligated to fire up a few times. Asshat.

[DannyTN]

The cookie pushed him.

[rktman]

Cookie violence? Where’s the mares against illegal cookies when you need them?

[DannyTN]

"Medicinal use no doubt."

Cured every problem that was ailing him.

[Constitution Day]

Nineteen-year-old Levy Thamba died after falling from the balcony of a Denver hotel...

Like Mr. Thamba, that balcony was just a *bit* too high.

[ClearCase_guy]

Hold my glass of milk and watch this ...

[Zathras]

I can just here it 10 years from now:
“Man, I’ve got to get this cookie monster off my back?”

[Major Matt Mason]

Is Wyoming no longer a part of the U.S.?

[grania]

the cookie didn't kill him...

I'd be surprised if laced baked goods didn't become a real problem. Back in the late '60s, there were sickos out there who would bake marijuana into cookies, etc, served at parties and events where people brought food contributions. The situation was such that in some environments it was best to bring ones own food to eat and in the teaching environment to not have bake sales of home made treats.

Stoners may laugh. But it's a real issue for those who are drug free.

[Cowboy Bob]

Well, at least he died doing what he loved most...getting high.

[edcoil]

I’d say booze

[Telepathic Intruder]

Whatever the pot-heads say about marijuana, that it makes you smarter, that you can drive better on it, is in fact jut the opposite. But it does distort your behavior so that you just think you’re smarter, that you can drive better. I could usually tell who the pot-heads are because they’re all the same kind of stupid: slow and incoherent.

[oh8eleven]

Is Wyoming no longer a part of the U.S.?
LOL ... yeah, that was my first thought too. Just another glaring example of 21^st Century "journalism."

[Olog-hai]

Later on in the story, it mentions that Thamba was from the Republic of Congo and was attending Northwest College in Powell WY.

[1st Division guy]

if you like your cookie——