This is so funny…:
The caramel-chocolate flavored candy bar looked so innocent, like the Sky Bars I used to love as a child.
Sitting in my hotel room in Denver, I nibbled off the end and then, when nothing happened, nibbled some more. I figured if I was reporting on the social revolution rocking Colorado in January, the giddy culmination of pot Prohibition, I should try a taste of legal, edible pot from a local shop.
What could go wrong with a bite or two?
Everything, as it turned out.
Not at first. For an hour, I felt nothing. I figured I’d order dinner from room service and return to my more mundane drugs of choice, chardonnay and mediocre-movies-on-demand.
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 hallucinatory state for the next eight hours. I was thirsty but couldn’t move to get water. Or even turn off the lights. I was panting and paranoid, sure that when the room-service waiter knocked and I didn’t answer, he’d call the police and have me arrested for being unable to handle my candy.
I strained to remember where I was or even what I was wearing, touching my green corduroy jeans and staring at the exposed-brick wall. As my paranoia deepened, I became convinced that I had died and no one was telling me.
Too bad I wasn’t there; I could have gotten me a piece of booty and gotten away with it. 😉
Update: Some music related to post:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3YtvuZ2-I0
also too…I wonder if modo was seeing these?: (“Cause smokin’ and trippin’ is all that you do…”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8kYrIWu14E
Others: Firedoglake, Hit & Run, The Latest Word, Gawker, Politico, Ed Driscoll, Talking Points Memo,The PJ Tatler, The Huffington Post, The Daily Caller, Capital New York, Mediaite, Twitchy, JustOneMinute,The Week, Hullabaloo, Unqualified Offerings, Business Insider, The Dish and Balloon Juice (Via Memeoradum)
Hopefully, everyone understands that I was only kidding about oinking Modo.. She is pretty and all; but waaaaaaaaaay too old for me. 😀