“Don’t Give Me the Babe in the Woods Routine, MoDo.”
By Apparently, in addition to being silly, Maureen Dowd’s shock that pot brownies have a delayed reaction was also made up.
Who among us wouldn’t be surprised, unless they had any familiarity with Dowd’s extensive history of inventing things to fit whatever a priori narrative she had decided to advance?
Several commenters beat me to this point, but even had the facts in the column been factual, Dowd is supposed to be an adult. They don’t put warning labels on handles of vodka, but presumably Dowd figured out that you shouldn’t consume one in a single sitting. Or maybe not; that would explain a lot about her work.