Maureen Dowd on Pot Column: ‘I Was Focused More on the Fun than the Risks’

Dude, Maureen Dowd wrote about marijuana in the New York Times this week and it was totally mind-blowing. But also, it was, like, totally risky. And Dowd told Business Insider today that it’s like whoa and you should totally be more responsible with this stuff.

See, Dowd ate part of a pot-laced candy bar and had a gigantic freakout, after which she concluded people should be aware of “the darker side of unleashing a drug as potent as marijuana on a horde of tourists of all ages and tolerance levels.” The tour guide who Dowd walked around with said he most definitely warned her against doing that.

So what happened? Well, as Dowd put it, “I was focused more on the fun than the risks. In that sense, I’m probably like many other people descending on Denver.”

And as for the tour guide’s claims, Dowd says he may have brought it up, but obviously the warning didn’t stick. She still supports marijuana legalization, she just thinks people should “err on the side of conservative cautions.”

(Related note: The Guardian‘s Sarah Jeong wrote some hilarious columns resulting from a number of other New York Times columnists on a variety of different drugs.)

[image via NYT]

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