[Steve_Seattle]

I rarely smoke marijuana, but a couple of years ago someone gave me a marijuana brownie that I ate one night while my girlfriend was at work. I thought I was going to die; I desperately wanted to get a drink of water, but it took me half an hour to get out of my chair, and I barely made it to the kitchen.

That repeated itself about an hour later. I finally staggered to bed, and five hours later I was still staggering on my way to the bathroom. Nobody can tell me marijuana is harmless.

[MeshugeMikey]

ya dont suppose that thats what happened to Harry Reid ??

[SunTzuWu]

Nobody can tell me marijuana is harmless.

There was something in your brownie besides marijuana.

[Wpin]

Thanks for being honest Steve_Seattle. So many are under the delusion that pot is safe. My youngest asked for help last year getting off it as her addiction became uncontrollable and her quality of life was very low.

I am a recovering alcoholic and so brought her home for two weeks to help her through the roughest patch. Got her in outpatient program and went down to be with her four days a week for six weeks. It was so worth the effort! She is today a very productive, happy individual free from marijuana. I am very proud of her as well.

[dragnet2]

I rarely smoke marijuana, but a couple of years ago someone gave me a marijuana brownie that I ate one night while my girlfriend was at work. I thought I was going to die; I desperately wanted to get a drink of water, but it took me half an hour to get out of my chair, and I barely made it to the kitchen.

Big deal, at least you could see the kitchen.

Long ago, my buddy and I once drank a bit too much alcohol, he jumped off a second story balcony, landed in a small tree which snapped in two, dumping him on a sidewalk. I was told I tried to pee on him from up the balcony, until I was thrown out of the little "party" I wound up falling half way down a concrete stairway. We apparently found another party and my buddy the balcony jumper woke up with a new tattoo of a headless demon, from his wrist to his elbow. The demon was holding up two hands, one displaying a peace sign and the other the middle finger.

But hey, booze is legal and quite acceptable.

[Boogieman]

Well, the “edibles” as they are calling them nowadays do have a lot stronger and long lasting effect than just smoking it.

I think people think, because it’s in a cookie or brownie, it is innocuous, but it really will hit you a lot harder, especially if you are not a regular user, since you have no tolerance. It can be more like an acid trip than the normal marijuana high. People going to shops and buying those who don’t know the effects often end up in the emergency room.

It won’t kill them, like an overdose of some other drugs, but it will freak them out, and in some cases, could probably causes mental issues that linger, just like any bad psychedelic “trip”.