Jacob Sullum on the Alleged Terrors of a Marijuana Overdose

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Jacob Sullum

During a recent trip to Colorado, Jacob Sullum sat on the cold hard floor of a hotel bathroom in the middle of the night, thinking about Maureen Dowd. The New York Times columnist had been widely mocked for eating too much marijuana-infused chocolate, which left her "curled up in a hallucinatory state for the next eight hours." And not in a good way.

Sullum's own marijuana overdose was not nearly so dramatic, he writes. Although edibles are indeed tricky, he says, consumers are not quite as helpless as Dowd portrays them.