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In reply to the discussion: Dumb, dumb, dumb pot prank. Please be responsible and don't abuse the new laws. [View all]pnwmom
(108,978 posts)48. The student may or may not have done it to celebrate the new law.
Doesn't matter.
If enough of these incidents get a lot of publicity -- or the kinds of marijuana-related shootings that have hit the news in my area -- it could make other states think twice about legalizing. Or our own legislature could repeal the law in two years.
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pnwmom
Dec 2012
OP
3 people went to the hospital, but only because they were unfamiliar with the effects of THC.
morningfog
Dec 2012
#13
I don't understand how you can say that. The head of the history department said she "blacked out."
pnwmom
Dec 2012
#151
Eating THC butter has a different and more intense effect than smoking it. I don't recomend it to..
crazy homeless guy
Dec 2012
#43
Yes, it is. "Depressant" doesn't mean it causes depression. It's a downer drug....
Honeycombe8
Dec 2012
#193
because unknowingly ingesting it, would make them think they were suddenly sick -in the head
bettyellen
Dec 2012
#86
Not if we are vigilant in knocking down this frame every time it is presented.
morningfog
Dec 2012
#28
Patience. It will be used. Whether or not it's successfu is not something we can tell right now.nt
jeff47
Dec 2012
#118
And nobody thought the 18th amendment could be ratified in 5 years. They did it in 2.
jeff47
Dec 2012
#122
I don't buy it. But, even if it were, how they hell are you going to stop idiots from being idiots?
morningfog
Dec 2012
#27
Yes, it has "nothing" to do with legalization. ... but, it will be used as a tool against
RKP5637
Dec 2012
#56
If it were illegal, would they have had the pot to begin with? Same argument as for guns?
Honeycombe8
Dec 2012
#65
And so it is with guns, whether legal or illegal. So the use of guns is not connected with thecrimes
Honeycombe8
Dec 2012
#90
Yep, it provides ammunition against pot, they will use it as a tool to say, see what happened in CO.
RKP5637
Dec 2012
#55
It doesn't. I don't think the average person would know a pot brownie from
kestrel91316
Dec 2012
#67
if you wash the butter, or if you don't know what pot tastes like u don't. blaming the victims?
bettyellen
Dec 2012
#87
you said the victims should have known. creepy! and I'm hella calm, but gee thanks for the concern!
bettyellen
Dec 2012
#120
your statement was pretty emphatic, and I guess you are now saying.... pointless?
bettyellen
Dec 2012
#128
you would have no idea it's a pot brownie, the THC is dissolved in butter... second,
dionysus
Dec 2012
#94
Don't trust any "pot luck", there's way too many closet sickos to take the chance.
xtraxritical
Dec 2012
#37
Dudes! Not cool. I wouldn't underestimate the effects either. They were probably telling
brewens
Dec 2012
#7
I wonder if those 3 who went to hospital ate multiple brownies? The article isn't clear.
Electric Monk
Dec 2012
#41
Could you please show me where I said it more than once? I corrected it where I was aware of it.
pnwmom
Dec 2012
#175
Repetition does not create truth from fiction. Three people to hospital, not 8.
Bluenorthwest
Dec 2012
#66
The first article I read said 8, but I corrected it to 3 when later articles said 3.
pnwmom
Dec 2012
#155
The framing is way ginned up in your presentation here. Consider how the new law
Bluenorthwest
Dec 2012
#73
You are putting words in my mouth. I said 3 went to the hospital and I never suggested that "the new
pnwmom
Dec 2012
#153
You don't think it possible that there is a struggle within that movement between
patrice
Dec 2012
#83
If You Slip Almost ANY Substance Into Someone's Food Or Drink, Without Their Knowledge...
WillyT
Dec 2012
#31
+1 also they could have been arrested for driving while impaired. For some that would mean loss of
grantcart
Dec 2012
#33
About 11,000 Americans die each year due to drunk drivers. 11,000 die and yet
Bluenorthwest
Dec 2012
#70
But, you do realize that legalization has not gone into effect in CO yet, right?
morningfog
Dec 2012
#148
Neither of us know whether this stupid act had anything to do with celebrating the new law.
pnwmom
Dec 2012
#149
You are the only one interjecting such an idea. The new law isn't even here yet.
morningfog
Dec 2012
#150
Dozens of people right here agree with me. As far as I can tell, you are one of very few
pnwmom
Dec 2012
#152
Do you realize the new law, legalization, has not even gone into effect yet?
morningfog
Dec 2012
#154
So? The point remains that people in these states should avoid doing stupid things
pnwmom
Dec 2012
#157
Incidents like this have been happening for decades and are not a product of
morningfog
Dec 2012
#107
?? Why do you keep responding to pnwmom as though she is against legalization or hates pot?
tblue37
Dec 2012
#134
New laws are in effect yet. She is inventing this strange celebration as motivation.
morningfog
Dec 2012
#147
It happened without the law. Legalization hasn't been signed into law yet in CO.
morningfog
Dec 2012
#127
This is sooo damn stupid and plays right into the critics hands. Damn fools!!! NOT funny at all. n/t
RKP5637
Dec 2012
#54
These students are not as mature as the ones I went to school with in the 70s. They are hurting
jwirr
Dec 2012
#59
Yes, but they were not being watched by the whole country to see how legalization was going to
jwirr
Dec 2012
#72
As a recovering alcoholic such a crime would create for me an unacceptable risk . . .
Journeyman
Dec 2012
#81
When I eat pot-laced food, the effect is strong and lasts much longer than when I've smoked it.
Drunken Irishman
Dec 2012
#85
Link? I've never heard that pot can cause death easily when mixed with anything.
morningfog
Dec 2012
#144
And you've probably never heard that, in susceptible people, it's been linked with arrhythmias.
pnwmom
Dec 2012
#158
Not minimizing. Just looking for accuracy. I have never heard of death from interaction.
morningfog
Dec 2012
#160
I just showed you about life-threatening arrhythmias. Obviously, if someone was taking
pnwmom
Dec 2012
#174
If you can't produce a link to show an interaction that causes death, just say so.
morningfog
Dec 2012
#163
430,000 results and not one saying there is a drug with which intraction easily causes a death.
morningfog
Dec 2012
#166
Apparently you can't read. Because that list includes a lot of things that easily cause death.
jeff47
Dec 2012
#182
The University pointed out that the faculty member blacked out in her classroom.
pnwmom
Dec 2012
#138
So your mention of the law is a complete non sequitur. But thanks for your concern. nt
Romulox
Dec 2012
#181
No, it's not. The media in WA and CO (do you live in one of those states) has ALREADY started
pnwmom
Dec 2012
#191
One more time: people in WA will hear the story and not ask whether the law in CO
pnwmom
Dec 2012
#194
It's stupid and wrong, the same could be said if someone laced a beverage or punch
Uncle Joe
Dec 2012
#171
It is unfathomable that you would A) Waste that much pot on mostly strangers and B)
cecilfirefox
Dec 2012
#178