[caption id=”attachment_85420″ align=”aligncenter” width=”2144″] Willie Nelson performs during the Austin City Limits Hall of Fame show on Saturday night April 26, 2014. (AP Photo/Courtesy of KLRU, Scott Newton)
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Country icon and marijuana maestro Willie Nelson is stepping in to save New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd from herself.
Back in June, Dowd wrote about a bad trip after consuming a pot-laced candy bar.
Her column was widely mocked and even served as the inspiration for the Marijuana Policy Project’s first Consume Responsibly billboard, reading, “Don’t let a candy bar ruin your vacation.”
It also caught the attention of Nelson, who invited Dowd to get high on his tour bus “anytime” during a Rolling Stone interview.
It appears Dowd has taken him up on that offer. In her latest column, she writes about sitting with Nelson and learning from the master.
“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 said, in his honeyed voice. “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.
“Honestly, I don’t do edibles,” he continued. “I’d rather do it the old-fashioned way, because I don’t enjoy the high that the body gets. Although I realize there’s a lot of other people who have to have it that way, like the children that they’re bringing to Colorado right now for medical treatments. Those kids can’t smoke. So for those people, God bless ’em, we’re for it.”
The two also discussed politics and decided that President Obama is probably in need of a Choom Gang reunion.
“I would think,” Nelson told Dowd, “he would sneak off somewhere.”
