maureen dowd wrote an op ed piece about a candy bar laced with marijuana, she ate too much and thought she'd died. dowd's story is putting the national spotlight under growing concerns about the safety of edible forms of marijuana. joining us from colorado , matt brown, he worked with maureen dowd whether she went to colorado to research the marijuana industry, a visit that led to her column. >>> two deaths have been somewhat linked to marijuana, and growing number of cases of children and adults who have gotten sick by edible marijuana. is it a danger compared to smoking pot? >> very similar danger and we need to be clear that we're not talking about the sort of overdose death risk danger like you'd see with alcohol. somebody getting so drunk that they just die. what we see are people who are not familiar with this product, particularly some of the edible products and don't take appropriate precautions in their own use as they goin experiment and then have some sort of unwanted side effects and in some cases don't know how to handle that. emergency room in particular are probably more

answered the burning question, did you warn maureen dowd of how potent those pot edibles can be?e did what all the reporters did, listened, bought some samples. i don't remember what exactly. me and the owner of the dispensary and the assistant manager and the bud tender talked with her for 45 minutes at the shop. the article even implies dowd could have avoided the super bad trip if she had just rolled a joint instead. quote, she got some bud, some edibles. and when we got back to the hotel, she had to run off to a mitt romney documentary screening. she asked will you roll a joint for me. i don't know how to do it. she had to run quickly to the screening and i was catching a flight the next day and we were going to connect a few nights later, but it never worked out. you heard that right. mitt romney documentary, the urgency of getting to the departmentry kept maureen dowd from getting a joint rolled for her. instead she ate that edible, part of it any way and too much of it at that. and as she writes, this is what to her in her hotel room. i strained to remember where i was or

to read a column by maureen dowd. only one who missed it. others cut straight to the point with tweets like this one. quote, pot candy strikes back. just saw maureen dowd twerking in the street. with tweets that good i might have to read it after all or just have a pot brownie myself. just kidding. now from something that has you giggling to something that has you raging. if there is one thing the world doesn't need it's a remake of the iconic "indiana jones" movies. harrison ford played the character perfectly in four films. this article on the blog defamer reports a remake is in the works and that "twilight" star robert pattinson may play the new indiana jones. now, while i like r. pats and these are just rumors on social media you're hating on it and sending tweets like this one, quote, please do not let robert pattinson as indiana jones be true. please do not let it be true. please, please. death first. pot brownie? let's leave the remake sh shenanigans of the hollywood machine behind us and travel to space. nasa

maureen dowd had a tough time on an assignment in colorado. as she writes in the "new york times," "i felt a scary shudder go through my body and brain. i barely made it from the desk to the bed where i laid curled up in a ha louis that tri state for the next eight hours. as my paranoia deepdened i became convinced i had died and no one was telling me." dowd had eaten a candy bar laced with marijuana in a state where that's now legal, but at 16 times the recommended dose and got a bit mopped on the internet. welcome back to earth, maureen. now for an update on the couple of media stories. it's been a long time, last fall to be precise, since cbs put lara logan on a leave of absence over her botched "60 minutes" report on benghazi which relied on a source who falsely claimed to have been at the scene of the attack. now as first disclosed by hollywood reporter's marisa guthrie, logue sn back at work and will be appearing on cbs programs and eventually "60 minutes." the network had left the war correspondent in limbo for too long. she'll now get

>>> maureen dowd said i felt a scary shudder go through my body and brain.from the desk to the bed where i lay curled up in a hallucinogen state for the next hours. dowd had eaten a candy bar laced with marijuana in a state where that's not recommended, but ate 16 times the recommended dose and got a bit mocked on the internet. welcome back to earth, maureen. >>> now for an update on a couple of media story, it's been a long time, last fall to be precise and cbs put lara logan on a leave of absence over her botched "60 minutes" report oven benghazi who falsely claimed to be at the scene. now marisa guthrie, logan is back at work and will appearing on cbs programs and eventually "60 minutes." they had left her in limbo for two long. she'll now get a crack at rebuilding her career. >>> sharyl attkisson made headlines when she quit cbs telling me the network had simply stopped running her investigative pieces on benghazi and other subjects. now attkisson is taking heat from the less. a website that says it wants fair reporting and is part of the conservative he

you mentioned more regulation after the maureen dowds of the world write columns like those.hat's the likelihood does a regulatory snapback and all of this essentially shuts down and everyone is getting into the industry is walking into a dead end? >> i just don't see that happening. all of the states are pulling -- over 50%, i believe they even said texas is polling over 70% right now. i really think texas is going to go sooner than most people think. i'm originally from there. and it's sort of texas goes, i feel like the whole nation is going to go. >> well, tom, we're going to keep our eye on you and everyone else in this space, even though people give us a hard time occasionally on twitter. tom, thanks. >> all right, thank you. >> talking disruption in the pot business. >>> when we come back, after amazon launched its own phone last week, jeff bezos had an interesting message for one iphone customer. we're going to tell you what he said in just a moment. >>> plus, everyone watching, this is your chance to be a part of "squawk alley." we'll ask questions that you can vote

. >>> pulitzer prize winning "new york times" columnist maureen dowd reports that she recently tried marijuana and it didn't do so well. they traveled to colorado to cover the state's legalization of marijuana and tried the edible pot. she said the caramel covered chocolate candy bar didn't take effect right away, but, quote, i laid curled up in a that louis that story state for the next eight hours. she further explains, as my paranoia deepened, i thought i had died and no one told me. dowd doesn't say how much of the candy bar she ate, as many on twitter pointed out. but she does say after the fact she was told the bar should have been divided into 16 pieces. that's a lot. for those who aren't regular marijuana users. >>> and it took nine years for nasa to create the most comprehensive and colorful photo of deep space yet. this one image contains 10,000 of the oldest galaxies in the universe and trillions of stars. at 10 billion light years away, these massive clusters are as faint as a fire fly can be seen from the distance of the moon. this bouquet of some of the oldest galaxies

that was maureen dowd describing her experience eating a pot infused candy bar in denver. s written about problems they are having getting use of the new regulations. maureen ate too much of the edible, more than she was supposed to. they are not labeled well. roger, do you have thoughts on what's going on? >> the united states has wasted an amazing amount of energy and human capital fighting a war on drugs that we could mott win. it seems to me the rational thing to do is accept that cannabis at least has positive medical value. hemp has commercial value. they ought to exploit it. treat it like alcohol, tobacco and the other things that are age-appropriate. i look at america and i think we have a lot of real problems to solve. let's get the government out of the issues where we aren't going to win. fighting warses in countries we can't reach. fighting battles against drugs people will take and focus on, hey, china. right? the nsa. let's take things that if we do them right will make everybody better off. >> in the cnbc documentary, harry smith talked to people at candy bar

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he was referring to a column by maureen dowd who had gone to colorado, 8 hole candy bar, got a nastyhat is what he was referring to. doesn't want any regulation of edible marijuana at all. we ask you, what do you think? do you think we should regulate the edible stuff? many of you agree with the judge, not me. joshua says there is no need, no one has ever been harmed by it and you cannot overdose. mike and there should be no regulation on weed. don't we have enough government in our lives? some of you did take my side, kilby pleaded this, marijuana needs some regulation but be careful. overstaxation and regulation will recreate criminal markets. thanks for your comments, keep them coming, short and to the point. next cases might be the best free ad for go pro yet, a biker in south africa out for a ride, a group of thugs armed, run out of the woods, put a gun in his face, they steal his bike, steal his cellphone, his car keys, sunglasses or take his wrote -- go pro camera which was filming the whole thing, out with the guns. a big mistake, those three men have been arrested. prosecuto

i think maureen dowd wrote a clem that applied that principle without mentioning lennon. republicans come in and have clear ideas. george w. bush promised a humble restrained foreign policy and then 9/11 happened. this president, you know, his political dream was to get us out of iraq and get us out of afghanistan, but now i know the left won't be happy and the right won't be happy because they want more, but does president obama have any other choice than to take the step he is taking right now with this region on fire? >> the step he is tag right now, sending 300 military advisers and, more important, he is getting involved once again politically as the sort of --, you know, as the united states in iraq and look. i think the opening, the potential opening he sees -- and i don't know if it's real. i have my deep suspicions but the opening he sees if you can get a new government formed in iraq that doesn't include maliki that is inclusive that doesn't govern in a sectarian way against shiites against sunnis, maybe you can persuade the sunni tribal chiefs in the sunni area

pulitzer prize winner maureen dowd recently visited colorado to cover that state's legalized pot scene a bit of a marijuana candy bar and she didn't feel anything, so she ate more. that's where her problems began. dowd says, "i felt a scary shudder go through my body and brain. i barely made it from the desk to the bed, where i lay curled up in a ha louis thattory state for the next eight hours." she goes on, "as my par now deepened, i became convinced that i had died and no one was telling me." it turns out that dowd ingested 16 times the recommended dosage of that candy bar. >> what are you looking at me for? what are you talking about? once in college and never happened again. start making deals with god, the whole thing. glad she's okay. >> does that mean the candy bar, you're only supposed to take one little bite? >> here's the thing. just wait for it. >> don't rush it? >> that's what i've read. >> not that we're advising anybody try that. >>> here's a question if you are flying. how early should you get to the airport? what do you guys normally do? >> freak out and get there real

now you, gutfeld, have selected maureen dad who is a columnist for the "new york times." put her picture up there, please. ms. dowdana, so why is she a pinhead? >> the thing is she ate a browny. 8 hours alone in a hotel room in a fetal position thinking she was going to die. you don't do. this like a story on happy hour and drinking a half gallon of rum in a closet. human stupidity. not the substance fault. you can do this with water, it's called drowning. >> you say if you a eat a marijuana laced brownie the whole thing you are going to get sick. >> exactly. >> she didn't know that i didn't know it. if i see a marijuana cookie and i wanted to eat one which i never would, i would eat the cookie and then you are telling me i'm going into a coma? is that what you are telling me? why isn't there a warning story just nibble. >> that's the lesson. that's a good point. the stuff is spread out unevenly in the food. people don't know that. >> that should be all these idiots out in colorado, some guy jumped off a balcony and killed himself after eating one of these things. you know, these pot legalizers drive me crazy. i t