He celebrated by smoking marijuana and eating fried chicken.
After all, what's more dangerous: medicinal marijuana or eating the deep fried belly of a big fat pig?
Asked to compare smoking marijuana with eating it, 39percentt of respondents said both methods are equally dangerous, while 22percentt said neither is dangerous at all.
One of the few researchers who's studied the relationship between marijuana and eating disorders fairly extensively is Dr. Alin Andries, a physician at the University of Southern Denmark.
As with children, it's common for pets to stumble upon a high potency marijuana edible, eat it, and become incredibly ill and intoxicated.
Last week, a 62-year-old woman visited Colorado, bought some marijuana candy, ate it in her hotel room, got way too high as a result, and penned an account of the experience that captivated the nation, or at least the part of the nation that spends too much time giggling on Twitter.
In 2014, the first year of recreational legalization in Colorado, the number of children who were accidentally exposed to marijuana – for instance, by eating a marijuana-infused edible thinking it was a regular piece of candy – significantly increased from the previous year.
Colorado has seen a rise in numbers of children taken to the hospital after eating marijuana products.
There are many reasons for eating marijuana instead of smoking it edibles give you a different sort of high, they say, and certainly delay the drug's psychoactive effects, and pose no harm to your lungs but flavor has not traditionally been one of them.
Even those with experience should be careful when eating marijuana products.
