The campaign against Amendment 2, Florida’s medical
marijuana initiative, warns that letting patients buy
cannabis-infused edibles will lead to date rape. You may wonder:
Exactly how would that work? Judging from a
new No on 2 ad (right), the date rapist would follow these
steps:
1. Get a doctor’s recommendation allowing him to obtain
marijuana for treatment of a “debilitating medical condition”
(defined here).
2. Get a date.
3. Buy a marijuana-infused chocolate-chip cookie from a
dispensary.
4. Take the date to a picnic where similar-looking
chocolate-chip cookies are being served on a red-and-white checked
tablecloth.
5. Slip the pot cookie onto the pile of regular cookies when the
date is not looking.
6. Offer the date a cookie.
7. Make sure she takes the right cookie.
8. If she refuses, insist that she eat the cookie; force it down
her throat if necessary.
9. Wait a couple of hours.
10. Pounce.
Or something like that. You may be thinking: Wouldn’t it be
easier to get the date drunk or slip her a sedative? You may also
be thinking: Marijuana-infused baked goods have been around for a
long time. People even have been known to make their own with
marijuana purchased on the black market. Why is it we are only
hearing about this pot-cookie date-rape menace now? Possibly
because recent polling indicates that
88 percent of Floridians support medical marijuana, and the No
on 2 folks are desperate to turn public opinion around by any means
necessary. Judging from the overwhelmingly negative reaction on the
group’s Facebook
page, where the ad debuted on Saturday, the scare tactics may
be backfiring.
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