Maureen Dowd on pot candy bar: ‘I became convinced that I had died’

Maureen Dowd on pot candy bar: 'I became convinced that I had died'

I feel the same way every time I read Maureen’s column…

Maureen Dowd on pot candy bar: 'I became convinced that I had died'

Marijuana is displayed at the River Rock dispensary in Denver in October.(Photo: Brennan Linsley, AP)

In Maureen Dowd’s latest column for the New York Times , she describes her scary experience eating a pot candy bar while reporting on legalized marijuana in Colorado. She sat in a Denver hotel room experimenting with the legalized edible, “nibbling” on some of the chocolate-flavored bar. “For an hour, I felt nothing […] But then I felt a scary shudder go through my body and brain. I barely made it from the desk to the bed, where I lay curled up in a […]