Current Events > Utah senator films himself trying edibles, says every legislator should try it

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Senator Jim Dabakis, D-Salt Lake City, filmed himself eating marijuana-infused gummy bears and posted the video on Facebook. He says that, before passing any laws on marijuana, everyone in the Utah legislature should try it for themselves.

KSL Newsradios Dave Noriega and guest host Chris Vanocur sat down with Sen. Dabakis on the Dave & Dujanovic Show to talk about the political stunt.

He explained why he decided to try marijuana and why he thinks that the people deciding marijuana laws in Utah are dangerously misinformed.

Dabakis says that he decided to try marijuana for himself because he was pretty confident that nobody in the Utah legislature that done it.

I thought it was about time that at least one legislator knew a bit about marijuana before we changed all the laws, Dabakis says.

He says that he was in Las Vegas, Nevada, for other reasons when he passed by a marijuana dispensary and decided not to pass up the chance to give the drug a try.

Dabakis, who says hes never tasted, smoked, eaten, or shot up marijuana in his life, bought a package of marijuana-infused gummy bears on the clerks recommendation. He says that, because of Nevada laws, they came in such tight, child-proof packaging that he ended trying to tear them open with his teeth.

At first, the senator only tried half of a gummy bear. But when, after an hour, the gummy bear still didnt have any effect, Dabakis admits that he tried a little more.

It was no big deal! Dabakis told KSL. I felt a little calm and a little cool and a little high but I just want to say to everybody who hasnt done it, its not that big of a deal.

Sen. Jim Dabakis says that he tried the drug for himself to show the Utah legislature that marijuana isnt as bad as some of Proposition 2 opponents have made it out to be.

The way the opponents are talking about it, its some kind of reefer madness. You take this, your heads going to explode! Its going to be terrible! Dabakis told KSL Newsradio. You know what? It wasnt at all.

In his video, he says that Nevada collected $420 million from marijuana sales last year, $70 million of which he says will go to the taxpayers.

Hes worried that the compromise bill to replace Proposition 2 that Governor Gary Herbert, a Republican, plans on putting forward in a special session will result in marijuana laws being pushed out of Utah by lawmakers that dont understand the drug.

I like this guy.
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he's not wrong.
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voldothegr8 posted...

shot up marijuana

Lol

Well good on him, especially being from Utah. Too bad he had to deal with our Vegas pricing, shit edibles and shit dispensaries.
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good on him
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Hahaha I completely missed the shot up part. Good thing he didn't shoot up a whole marijuana.
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I think Orrin Hatch should do it.
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Just getting everyone in Congress high would solve so much I feel.
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Pretty cool, but I imagine his political opponents will try and get him in legal trouble over this.
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Rip Utah man as the room shot up 97 marijuanas.
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Kineth posted...

Pretty cool, but I imagine his political opponents will try and get him in legal trouble over this.

That's what I was thinking. Watch them try to arrest him and throw him out of office.

Ok, I doubt that would happen, but it would be kind of funny in a sad way. Some Super PAC will probably make commercials about him being a pot head, though.
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At first, the senator only tried half of a gummy bear.

lmfao
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CyricZ posted...

Just getting everyone in Congress high would solve so much I feel.

Let's be real, most of them probably use drugs already, while publicly railing against them.
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VectorChaos posted...

CyricZ posted...

Just getting everyone in Congress high would solve so much I feel.

Let's be real, most of them probably use drugs already, while publicly railing against them.

I'd bet more are straight arrow than you'd think, though there's definitely a chuck that already tokes or does other drugs.
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