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As long as the brownies are really really good, then I guess it's OK:

A police officer will avoid criminal charges despite admitting he took marijuana from criminal suspects and, with his wife, baked it into brownies.
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The department's investigation began with a 911 call from Sanchez's home on April 21, 2006. On a 5-minute tape of the call, obtained by the Free Press, Sanchez told an emergency dispatcher he thought he and his wife were overdosing on marijuana.

"I think we're dying," he said. "We made brownies and I think we're dead, I really do."

Sanchez later told police investigators that his wife took the marijuana out of his police vehicle while he was sleeping. In a subsequent interview, he admitted he got the marijuana out of the car himself and put it in the brownie mix, police said.

The reality of course was that if this had been any other person, a SWAT team would have come barreling through their door, shot their dog, and then roughed up the couple for a while.  Then, after being handcuffed on the floor for an hour or so, they might have been taken to the hospital, and hopefully weren't shot in the process.  You know, not that there's a double standard or anything.

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Thursday, May 10, 2007 1:11:40 PM (Central Daylight Time, UTC-05:00)
Is it even possible to overdose on marijuana?
Thursday, May 10, 2007 2:07:12 PM (Central Daylight Time, UTC-05:00)
"Sanchez later told police investigators that his wife took the marijuana out of his police vehicle while he was sleeping."

Way to throw your wife under the bus, officer. Jeez.
Wendy
Thursday, May 10, 2007 4:39:34 PM (Central Daylight Time, UTC-05:00)
Jenna,

I think it's technically possible to overdose on marijuana, but you have to eat/smoke so much, that you're actually more likely to pass out from the effects before you're able to get enough in you, making it practically impossible in real life.
Thursday, May 10, 2007 7:01:36 PM (Central Daylight Time, UTC-05:00)
There is no known lethel dosage, but it is not uncommon for
even experienced users to get higher than they intended when
eating it. It takes much longer to come on, negating the
titration Nick mentioned above. One consequence is tachycardia
(rapid heartbeat) which can be pretty scary when one is swacked
out.

Many years ago, an acquaintance reported that he had been stopped
while transporting 2-1/2 pounds of redbud, and the officer
confiscated half a pound of it.
Thursday, May 10, 2007 7:02:48 PM (Central Daylight Time, UTC-05:00)
Nick, you've gots to adjust the width of the edit window.
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