New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd wrote about a bad experience she had with a marijuana-laced candy bar in June, so, naturally, Willie Nelson offered to show her the proper way to get stoned.
"When Willie Nelson invites you to get high with him on his bus, you go," the writer's most recent op-ed column highlighting her pot escapade with the Redheaded Stranger began. Everything started when Dowd was out in Denver to cover the pot revolution in June when she overdid it with an edible. "I lay curled up in a hallucinatory state for the next eight hours," Dowd wrote about the experience. "As my paranoia deepened, I became convinced that I had died and no one was telling me." Nelson, who covered the August issue of Rolling Stone, said he read the column and that Dowd was welcome to come aboard his tour bus for a more mellow experience, which the writer took him up on over the weekend.
"The same thing that happened to you happened to me one or two times when I was not aware of how much strength was in whatever I was eating," Nelson told Dowd on his bus in Washington, D.C. "One time, I ate a bunch of cookies that, I knew they were laced but I didn't worry about it. I just wanted to see what it would do, and I overdid it, naturally, and I was laying there, and it felt like the flesh was falling off my bones." He added that edibles aren't for him because they're too much of a body high, which other people can handle just fine.
Nelson also disclosed why weed is his drug of choice. "I found out that pot is the best thing for me because I needed something to slow me down a little bit," he told Dowd, referencing how mean he became when he got drunk. Had the singer continued down that path, he said, "there's no telling how many people I would have killed by now."
