LACED AND DISGRACED

     This story bothers me a little bit because I don't believe the whole truth is being told here. You see, apparently, a college student visiting Colorado for spring break fell to his death after eating marijuana cookies in what's believed to be the first publicized fatality linked to pot since its legalized sale in January. Here's what's funny; college kids are now going to Colorado for spring break now because pot is legal there and second, someone allegedly died from using marijuana. I call bullshit on the latter.

     Anyway, Levy Thamba, a 19-year-old exchange student at Northwest College in Powell, Wyoming, had just eaten the pot-laced treats with friends last month when he became "very agitated and upset" and ran off a fourth floor hotel balcony. What the story didn't tell you was that Thamba also drank a lot that night as well and probably washed the marijuana laced cookies down with some alcoholic beverage. Trust me, in my experimental days, I've eaten marijuana laced products and you would become too lazy to jump off of a balcony. If you added some alcohol to that mixture, you can become edgy and agitated and annoying. So, I am not buying into the fact that the cookies did this to Thamba. 

     According to three of Thamba's friends, who said it was the first time any of them had consumed marijuana, said one of them had purchased the cookies from a legal supplier and at least one of them was 21. See? Right there! "This was the first time any of them had consumed marijuana." You don't get high on your first time. Everyone knows that! According to the coroner, "The kids took this cookie, one of them took a bite and then got kind sick. The other two obviously didn't have a problem and then this one became very agitated and upset and didn't do so well. He got up and just started running and hits the railing. I'm not really sure that he knew what was going on....the kids were pretty traumatized." The teens autopsy found him having 7.2 nanograms of active THC per milliliter of blood. The state law in impaired driving cases sets a standard of 5 nanograms per milliliter. 

     Toxicology tests for other drugs or alcohol also came back negative, which I am not buying for a second, and Thamba didn't have any known physical or mental-health issues. The official cause of death for Thamba, who's originally from the Republic of Congo, includes "marijuana intoxication." What a crock of shit! Statistically, in all of these centuries, no on has ever died from using marijuana; you mean to tell me that this kid from Congo comes along and he's the very first? I smell a conspiracy to prove that marijuana is lethal and should not be legalized. These kids were doing something more than marijuana or the person who made the cookies added another ingredient to the cookies. This kid's behavior was not the work of good ol' Mary Jane. I'm sorry. 

     The coroner went on to say, "It's very sad. Obviously nobody knows how your body's going to act when trying marijuana for the first time." Or how about; you know nothing about marijuana. I have many friends who smoke a lot of it for many years, and they're all still alive today. In fact, I know more than friends that smoke and eat pot and they're all still alive today. They might be a little lazy and dumb, but they're still alive today! My point is there's no way that this kid died from only being affected by marijuana. I will not believe it. To the coroner's knowledge, whose office oversees 64 counties, Thamba's death is believed to the be the first since January. How about try that his death might be the first ever since people don't die from smoking or using marijuana. Can I say that enough?