Dowding ( v. ) : A disturbing , drug-induced experience brought on by the overconsumption of marijuana edibles . Usage : `` Aww man , I ate all those cookies and now I 'm dowding , hard . '' OK , so `` dowding '' may not be a real word -- yet -- but its namesake , New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd , knows a thing or two about a bad trip . She went to Colorado earlier this year and famously freaked out after eating too much marijuana-infused chocolate . `` I became convinced that I had died and no one was telling me , '' she wrote of the experience . Or , as Dr. Gonzo might have explained , `` You took too much , man . You took too much , too much . '' Related : NYT 's Maureen Dowd inspires effort to educate Coloradans about edibles . Now , thanks to new rules coming on line early next year , marijuana newbies may have an easier time avoiding Dowd 's fate . Starting in February , all recreational marijuana edibles have to come in single-serving sizes or sections . And some of Colorado 's edible makers are already cranking out the personal-sized goodies . 10,000 personal-sized goodies , that is , for each pound of marijuana they produce . At Sweet Grass Kitchen here recently , executive chef Lauren Finesilver was making a seasonal favorite , pumpkin pie . The single-serving pies , like the chocolate chip cookies , brownies and Snickerdoodles , are made with butter infused with marijuana , or cannabutter . ( Cannabis + butter . Get it ? ) Related : Pumpkin pot pie . For her batch of pie crusts , Finesilver used butter simmered in about a half pound of weed and then strained . Butter is the medium of choice because it tastes good and is easy to digest , explained owner Julie Berliner . And all her single-serving baked goods contain 10mg of THC , about equivalent of smoking a joint , Berliner said . But , it 's a different kind of high . `` It 's more of a body high , when you smoke it 's more psychoactive , '' she explained . But eat too much and you could soon find yourself dowding . And that 's where the smaller sizes come in handy . `` Breaking our products into single servings makes it intuitive for someone to eat one serving and know that if they are going to have more , they actually have to take another bite , '' she said . `` They do n't have to try to do the math and cut a cookie or a truffle up into several pieces . '' And that should help keep nubes like Maureen Dowd from going to pieces .
New rules will make them sell marijuana only in single - # ##s in Colorado . They 're already making smaller servings at the Sweet Grass Cafe . They 're also making pumpkin pot pie .