Title: Marijuana 'edibles' pack a wallop
Headings: Marijuana 'edibles' pack a wallop
Marijuana 'edibles' pack a wallop
Content: At one point, Mrs. Kirk tells the 911 operator 'please hurry' because he was scaring the kids and he was 'totally hallucinating.' " Edibles give users a different kind of high than the one they get from smoking marijuana, largely because the pot is absorbed through the stomach instead of the lungs. The effects are slower to arrive, generally last longer and can be more intense because people unwittingly eat more than they intend to. On the other hand, people who smoke pot get high quickly, allowing them to better regulate how stoned they're getting. "When you're smoking, you reach a certain level of highness ... and forget to keep smoking," says Denver forensic psychologist Max Wachtel, who counsels youth offenders. " It's in our nature to accidentally overuse edibles." Naylor says that's what happened to him: He ate the recommended dose of ¼ of the cookie and waited an hour. When nothing happened, he ate more. " I didn't realize it would be such an intense and different high after that long," he says.