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Yes, there is a “Colorado candy bar incident” entry on Dowd’s Wikipedia

New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd has crafted an impressive journalistic career that includes a Pulitzer, a Damon Runyon Award and a Woman of the Year nod from Glamour magazine.

You can read all about Dowd’s professional achievements on her Wikipedia page, and if you keep reading you’ll also come across a new entry: “2014 Colorado candy bar incident.”

Yes, seriously.

“In January 2014, Dowd went to Colorado, where she ate a cannabis-infused chocolate bar in her hotel room, which she had purchased legally,” the entry begins.

The entry reads so straightforwardly that it almost comes off like a children’s story.

The entry later shouts out to The Cannabist’s reporting from June 4: “Matt Brown, co-founder of a cannabis tourism company, said he had spent three to four hours with Dowd and a friend of hers before the incident, and said: ‘She got the warning.'”


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Follow-up: Maureen Dowd reacts — “I was focused more on the fun than the risks”

Opinion: Dowd’s peculiar tale is misleading, writes Denver Post editorial Page Editor Vincent Carroll, who notes Colorado’s edibles labeling requirements

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