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Drugs War on Drugs/Sweets
Posted by Cienna Madrid on Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 12:03 PM
What’s refreshing about this is that it’s less of a War on Drugs story than a stern talk with stupidity story:
A San Francisco man claims he was high on a double dose of medical marijuana cookies when he screamed, dropped his pants and attacked crew members on a cross-country flight, forcing its diversion to Pittsburgh, the FBI said Wednesday.
The man is facing a charge of disorderly conduct and the criminal complaint of interfering with the duties of a flight attendant (a penalty of up to 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine—jesus). He’s in deep shit for sure, but the refreshing angle of this story is he was a card-carrying medical marijuana user. I think it’s great to see the focus of any news story drawn away from abusing illegal drugs to stupidly using legal ones. Maybe someday, instead of being reduced to one of those “I knew a guy who knew a guy” urban legends about pantsless screaming drug users, he’ll be the kind of urban legend that parents tell their children in order to keep them from becoming pantsless screaming diabetics.
Or maybe I’m just a dreamer.
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What's really stupid is he could possibly get 20 years for his outbursts. I mean, he shouldn't be let off a slap on the wrist as he disturbed a flight, but TWENTY years?
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I have never seen anyone ever react this way to marijuana and I have been around a lot of people who have smoked for years. I have also smoked it on occasion. In fact I have done other drug and have never had any sort of reaction close to this.
I doubt it was the marijuana (though different people react differently to substances). Me thinks he has a mental problem.
I doubt it was the marijuana (though different people react differently to substances). Me thinks he has a mental problem.
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@2 No kidding.... One of the major problems with constant use is how dull and slow people get, mon.
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I'd guess booze and Ambien are responsible for more of these sort of scenarios than just about anything—hopefully parents will warn their kids against those, along with eating too much weed before a flight.
I doubt this dude will do any time, but his right to air travel should be revoked. Same goes for the fuckers that bring 2 carry-on bags, stow them 3 seat back, and make unboarding take 25 minutes when it should take 3. If the rules of flying are to hard for ya'll, you need to take the bus until you learn them.
I doubt this dude will do any time, but his right to air travel should be revoked. Same goes for the fuckers that bring 2 carry-on bags, stow them 3 seat back, and make unboarding take 25 minutes when it should take 3. If the rules of flying are to hard for ya'll, you need to take the bus until you learn them.
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I've never had anything like this happen because of pot. I have hallucinated from really strong hash, though. And I've had one (and only one, thankfully) really, really bad acid trip. I dunno, if the pot was strong enough, maybe it could happen. I'm still dubious, though.
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@2 - It's not clear from the article what his state of mind was during the incident, but I believe it—especially considering he ingested it. Marijuana can be a powerful anxiety trigger for those prone to it, and having a panic attack while being completely zorched is an ugly combo.
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From the story it sounds like he was so baked he forgot to pull up his pants when he came out of the bathroom, which does not seem entirely unreasonable for a large amount of ingested THC. When they confronted him about it he became belligerent. That could just be a function of somebody who is an asshole or somebody who has mental illness.
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Clearly an example of why marijuana, medical and otherwise, should be ILLEGAL! I mean, obviously, its use endangers the public.
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Ha-ha! How interesting.
I have actually had one bad experience with pot, and it was from a medical MJ brownie. I ate it on an empty stomach, and I was in a miserable frame of mind at the time. It was also the first time I'd had a non-home-made pot edible, so it was probably stronger than my body anticipated. I think all three factors contributed.
I had a panic attack, thought I was going to die. Probably also a contributing factor: It was my 2nd ever panic attack, the first being from Salvia about a month beforehand (so, I was partially panicking because I was worried that I was panicking again).
After a couple of hours of getting worse despite my husband's reassurances, he made me drink salt water (blergh) to induce vomiting. Not sure if that actually fixed it, or if I was just getting over it but within about 45mins I was calming down. What a fucking night, though.
The lesson, for me, was not to do out-of-the-norm drug use when I'm in a bad mental/emotional frame of mind.
Dropping one's pants and attacking flight crew does seem like an odd reaction, but I'd believe it.
I have actually had one bad experience with pot, and it was from a medical MJ brownie. I ate it on an empty stomach, and I was in a miserable frame of mind at the time. It was also the first time I'd had a non-home-made pot edible, so it was probably stronger than my body anticipated. I think all three factors contributed.
I had a panic attack, thought I was going to die. Probably also a contributing factor: It was my 2nd ever panic attack, the first being from Salvia about a month beforehand (so, I was partially panicking because I was worried that I was panicking again).
After a couple of hours of getting worse despite my husband's reassurances, he made me drink salt water (blergh) to induce vomiting. Not sure if that actually fixed it, or if I was just getting over it but within about 45mins I was calming down. What a fucking night, though.
The lesson, for me, was not to do out-of-the-norm drug use when I'm in a bad mental/emotional frame of mind.
Dropping one's pants and attacking flight crew does seem like an odd reaction, but I'd believe it.
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@12 - Weed still hasn't killed anyone. Yet, alcohol and pitbulls have - are you for banning them? Also, the use of cars endangers the public. And possibly microwaves, too. Oh, and water... I mean, people have drowned, we should really ban swimming.
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Just about all of us have—or have a friend that has—the proverbial "dude, I think this shit was LACED!" story. It wasn't. I never is. You/we just got way too high and had a really bad time.
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@15 - well, color me stupid. It occurred to me, but when in doubt I usually decide to be a knee-jerk bitch rather than give people the benefit of the doubt. I wouldn't want to miss out on an argument on the internet, after all.
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@16, I've had laced pot before. PCP. Not a good time. I thought I was going to die. The people I was with thought it was hilarious
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My friend had a freak-out after eating a brownie and a half that I made. He'd never eaten pot before, and when it didn't kick in after 5 mins, he kept eating. I don't think he's trusted pot food ever since.
Eating pot is quite different than smoking, and sometimes people don't realize quite the reaction you'll get.
Of course I learned my lesson about baking- make mini versions of everything so it's easier to monitor how much your ingesting.
Eating pot is quite different than smoking, and sometimes people don't realize quite the reaction you'll get.
Of course I learned my lesson about baking- make mini versions of everything so it's easier to monitor how much your ingesting.
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@18 - I swore up and down the exact same thing happened to me. My world fucking collapsed in a movie theater; screen wrapped around me, vertigo, breathing got shallow, I was freaked the fuck out—went into a stall there and proceeded to throw up. I was 17—and I guess anything is possible—but in retrospect, it was probably just the first time I got way, way too high.
I didn't take my pants down or require restraining though, but I'm not really that kind of person to begin with.
I didn't take my pants down or require restraining though, but I'm not really that kind of person to begin with.
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Yes, I was being ironic @12.
And seriously folks, Know What You're Ingesting! And legalized MJ would obviously make that much more possible/likely.
And seriously folks, Know What You're Ingesting! And legalized MJ would obviously make that much more possible/likely.
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See that's why the drug should be legal and they should be allowed to tell someone "sir, I know you're really wanting to get fucked up on the plane, but can you please wait till we land?", now with this medical card shit people feel entitled. You shouldn't feel entitled to smoke pot, like it's some kind of right no one can take away, you should smoke pot because it makes you feel good and doesn't give you a hangover. It should be totally acceptable to tell someone "no sir, getting high is not ok right now", and I don't think it's that hard to tell the difference between the medically necessary drugs and the medically helpful drugs, driving the potheads underground caused this.
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