What Maureen Dowd's Cannabis accident tells us [View all]

[DonCoquixote]

for those who do not know the story: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/03/maureen-dowd-tries-marijuana_n_5442224.html

OK, Dowd is a journalist. One of the things she is supposed to do is ASK QUESTIONS and GATHER FACTS. If she were unable to do this, it would be like saying I am a chef, but I do not know how to boil water or handle a knife. Apparently, she failed to do just that. Any one of us would ask a doctor how to take a drug: do we take it with food, morning, nightimes, can it make us drowsy, etc. Again, she failed to do that. So she not only showed a lack of professional skills (asking a question) but failed to use the same common sense we all use when we go to a doctor, or pick up a prescription at a Walgreens or CVS.

But, does her admitted mistake cause her to realize she made one...NO, she gets on and spins a tale of Reefer madness, blaming everyone BUT herself, and she can get away with that because she is a NYT reporter! Never mind who gets hurt, or that the conservatives will likely use this as a horror story to kill a reform of Cannabis laws "see, even dat Liberal Dowd got into trouble!" It says a lot where we allow people to do at the very least ignore the truth, and be fools, because they are our fools, in our papers, and they say something we like on occasion. It sure doe not hurt that, for all of Obama's sad foot dragging on the issue, The obama presidency will be known as being the era where states first started to treat Cannabis as just another intoxicant or medicine, something Maureen is helping to take back, even though she is simply avoiding the fact she failed to or refused to ask questions.