Maureen Dowd’s Weed Candy Experiment Personifies White Privilege

Newsone ^ | Jun 4, 2014 | Terrell Jermaine Starr

[FreedomPoster]

Nicely done!

[greene66]

This article on “white priviledge” is pathetic.

Maureen Dowd herself is pathetic.

Colorado, for becoming a dopehead state, is pathetic.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

What are those?

Glaucoma and as a palliative for nausea and loss of appetite while undergoing Chemo.

There are a number of other things it is claimed for but those are the only two reason I know that are truly accepted as medical treatments.

[RetiredTexasVet]

If you are stupid, it is best to keep your mouth shut and let them wonder rather than confirming it .... obviously she hasn’t learned much even after so many “teachable moments” in her drab undistinguished life.

[lostboy61]

Pretty lite weight lib reporter if you ask me. In the good old days 60s-70s a lift wing nut job could smoke all night and still get to a anti war rally the next day.

[GeronL]

It is a lot more potent now than what was around in the 60’s

[firebrand]

Some nice perspective here.

[ruesrose]

Well I suppose obama is hearing about this for the first time through the media, huh?

[Pearls Before Swine]

What is the white privilege here? Can’t blacks visit Colorado and buy pot-laced candy?

Is the author advocating wider relaxed drug laws so blacks (and whites) won’t have to travel? Or does she just want to stick it to Whitey by having miserable drug laws everywhere?

Or is it a voting problem—only a white majority state would be privileged enough to relax drug laws?

I found this article to be logically incoherent.

[firebrand]

Also, newcomers, who have only inhaled, do not seem to realize that ingested pot takes quite a bit longer to reach the brain than inhaled pot. They don’t feel anything, so they take more. Whoops. They don’t catch on till they find themsebrowsing in Tiffany’s china department when they’re supposed to be working.

No one has mentioned the paranoia and hallucinations. Marijuana is not a safe drug.

As for the antiwhite cast to the piece posted here, what else is new? Someone could make a great parlor game out of this.

[firebrand]

themselves

[fr_freak]

I have some knowledge in this area, so let me help some of you get a better perspective on this stuff:

1) I have no doubt that mj grown now is much stronger than the 70s stuff. How much stronger? Who knows? But stuff now is stronger than stuff from 5 years or more ago, so we can do some interpolation.

2) Eating the stuff cooked into food (if done properly) is WAY more potent than smoking it. And by WAY more, I mean WAY WAY WAY more. The amount that a person could comfortably smoke in one sitting would put that person in a uncomfortable stupor if eaten.

3) One of the dangers of edibles is that, once you get stoned from eating it, you might get the munchies, and, lacking judgment, then snack on the remainder of the edibles. The snowball effect would be of monumentally horrendous proportions.

4) If, as Dowd claims, she had never tried pot before this, then her tolerance was low, but, more importantly, her understanding of its effects and what to expect would be zero. I find it hard to believe that anyone would be stupid enough, even Maureen Down, to try a drug for the first time alone in a different city. On top of it, she apparently ate a dose intended for several people at least and, mind you, each does is calibrated to get experienced users high.

What Dowd did (if her claims are true) would be the equivalent of a life-long tea-totaller going to a bar and slamming 16 shots of all the strongest liquors in the place (except too much weed won't kill you, while 16 shots at once probably will), then writing an article about how evil alcohol is.

[Georgia Girl 2]

I hate a woman who can’t hold her weed. :-)

[nickcarraway]

1) I have no doubt that mj grown now is much stronger than the 70s stuff. How much stronger? Who knows? But stuff now is stronger than stuff from 5 years or more ago, so we can do some interpolation.

How do you know?

[dware]

Marijuana is not a safe drug. Lol. You're funny. I find the anti-pot crowd hilarious. Their arguments based solely on propaganda, such as "Reefer Madness" and outrageous hit pieces like this article. Interestingly enough, it's also usually the very same people who scream when the leftists try restricting other freedoms. Got your hatred of pot from God? Go read Genesis 1:29 and then get back with me. Bottom line? Don't like it? Don't eat smoke or buy it. It's that simple. Pot is a plant, like any other. It does not require any chemical additions, it won't explode while growing in someone's backyard, and does not hurt anyone but the user, and even that's arguable. It doesn't cause professional types to suddenly abandon their work ethic, and really, the only thing to get abused by someone smoking dope is a bag o potato chips. It's infinitely safer and has much fewer side effects than alcohol and Rx drugs. The potential for medical uses is astounding, including the ability to treat symptons of such issues as PTSD. There might be a slight downside to its use, but those are highly small and far between. I wish folks, particularly those that preach freedom, would learn the truth before spouting off about something they clearly know nothing about.

[GeronL]

bump

[Rebelbase]

The antidote!

[mac_truck]

4) If, as Dowd claims, she had never tried pot before this, then her tolerance was low, but, more importantly, her understanding of its effects and what to expect would be zero. I find it hard to believe that anyone would be stupid enough, even Maureen Down, to try a drug for the first time alone in a different city. On top of it, she apparently ate a dose intended for several people at least and, mind you, each does is calibrated to get experienced users high.

Concurring bump.

Dowd would have been better off letting someone she trusted and who was experienced guide her down that path.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Usually for medical purposes it is smoked (or vaped) slightly, emphasis on slightly. This was el stupido. Neither would one want to wolf down a whole bottle of aspirin.

[HiTech RedNeck]

For someone who isn’t looking for relief from an illness, I’d tell them all day long that this is an unwise thing to smoke.

But the ultimate problem is PEOPLE responsibility. Pot never smokes itself for someone. People smoke it.