Maureen Dowd eats Colorado cannabis candy bar, unwise about dosage.

[davidthegnome]

75. I wonder if she has anxiety issues?

I smoked a lot of pot back in my late teens and early twenties - it made me feel great for a while, I became something of a pothead, because it loosened me up, helped relieve some of my immense social anxiety. A few years later, for whatever reason, I started having panic attacks every time I smoked it - the only thing that would calm me down then was really loud music and dancing - some times for four or five hours at a time.

I've heard from some people who have regular anxiety attacks or anxiety issues that pot can make them worse - but I've also heard the opposite - which is that it helps chill people out. I think it varies from person to person.

But, uhm, sixteen doses? I would have been running through the woods naked, climbing trees and laughing at squirrels, maybe asking my cat about the meaning of life, and understanding all of it when she meowed at me.