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In January 2014, Dowd went to [[Colorado]], where she ate a [[cannabis foods|cannabis-infused chocolate bar]] in her hotel room, which she had [[Drug policy of Colorado#Recreational|purchased legally]]. This resulted in her lying "curled up in a hallucinatory state for the next eight hours" according to her June 3, 2014, [[The New York Times|''New York Times'']] [[op-ed]].<ref name=cannabis-salon>{{cite web|last1=McDonough|first1=Katie|title=Maureen Dowd ate a large dose of a marijuana chocolate bar, freaked out, wrote about it|url=http://www.salon.com/2014/06/04/maureen_dowd_ate_a_large_dose_of_a_marijuana_chocolate_bar_freaked_out_wrote_about_it/|website=Salon|accessdate=5 June 2014|year=2014-06-04}}</ref><ref name=cannabis-nyt>{{cite news|last1=Dowd|first1=Maureen|title=Don’t Harsh Our Mellow, Dude|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/04/opinion/dowd-dont-harsh-our-mellow-dude.html|accessdate=5 June 2014|work=The New York Times|date=2014-06-03}}</ref>
In January 2014, Dowd went to [[Colorado]], where she ate a [[cannabis foods|cannabis-infused chocolate bar]] in her hotel room, which she had [[Drug policy of Colorado#Recreational|purchased legally]]. This resulted in her lying "curled up in a hallucinatory state for the next eight hours" according to her June 3, 2014, [[The New York Times|''New York Times'']] [[op-ed]].<ref name=cannabis-salon>{{cite web|last1=McDonough|first1=Katie|title=Maureen Dowd ate a large dose of a marijuana chocolate bar, freaked out, wrote about it|url=http://www.salon.com/2014/06/04/maureen_dowd_ate_a_large_dose_of_a_marijuana_chocolate_bar_freaked_out_wrote_about_it/|website=Salon|accessdate=5 June 2014|year=2014-06-04}}</ref><ref name=cannabis-nyt>{{cite news|last1=Dowd|first1=Maureen|title=Don’t Harsh Our Mellow, Dude|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/04/opinion/dowd-dont-harsh-our-mellow-dude.html|accessdate=5 June 2014|work=The New York Times|date=2014-06-03}}</ref>


Dowd said she ate "approximately a quarter" of the chocolate bar,<ref name=cannabist2>{{cite news|last1=Baca|first1=Ricardo|title=NYT’s Maureen Dowd reacts: In quest for fun, risks downplayed|url=http://www.thecannabist.co/2014/06/05/maureen-dowd-reacts-focused-fun-risks/13196/|accessdate=6 June 2014|work=The Cannabist|date=2014-06-05}}</ref> which she was later told should have been broken into sixteen pieces, causing her to become "too [[Effects of cannabis#Short-term effects|high]]".<ref name=cannabis-bi>{{cite web|last1=Walker|first1=Hunter|title=Maureen Dowd Got Way Too High And Freaked Out|url=http://www.businessinsider.com/maureen-dowd-too-high-and-freaked-out-2014-6|website=Business Insider|accessdate=5 June 2014|date=2014-06-04}}</ref><ref name=cannabis-salon /> She said that recommendation had not been on the label, and that she was informed of it the next day by a medical consultant at a factory producing edible cannabis products.<ref name=cannabis-slate >{{cite web|last1=Weissman|first1=Jordan|title=The Economic Lesson of Maureen Dowd’s Reefer Madness|url=http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2014/06/04/marijuana_edibles_what_maureen_dowd_s_bad_trip_teaches_us_about_the_new.html|website=Slate|accessdate=5 June 2014|year=2014-06-04}}</ref><ref name=cannabis-wapo>{{cite news|last1=Rosenberg|first1=Alyssa|title=What Maureen Dowd gets right about marijuana|url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/act-four/wp/2014/06/04/what-maureen-dowd-gets-right-about-marijuana/|accessdate=5 June 2014|work=The Washington Post|date=2014-06-04}}</ref> Edible cannabis products in Colorado are required to be labeled with their [[Tetrahydrocannabinol|THC]] content, with a maximum of 100mg permitted in recreational products.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Dean|first1=Sam|title=Colorado's Legal Weed Edibles Are High on Sophistication|url=http://www.vice.com/read/colorados-legal-weed-edibles-are-high-on-sophistication|website=Vice|accessdate=5 June 2014|date=2014-01-01}}</ref>
Dowd said she ate "approximately a quarter" of the chocolate bar,<ref name=cannabist2>{{cite news|last1=Baca|first1=Ricardo|title=NYT’s Maureen Dowd reacts: In quest for fun, risks downplayed|url=http://www.thecannabist.co/2014/06/05/maureen-dowd-reacts-focused-fun-risks/13196/|accessdate=6 June 2014|work=The Cannabist|date=2014-06-05}}</ref> which she was later told should have been broken into sixteen pieces, causing her to become "too [[Effects of cannabis#Short-term effects|high]]".<ref name=cannabis-bi>{{cite web|last1=Walker|first1=Hunter|title=Maureen Dowd Got Way Too High And Freaked Out|url=http://www.businessinsider.com/maureen-dowd-too-high-and-freaked-out-2014-6|website=Business Insider|accessdate=5 June 2014|date=2014-06-04}}</ref><ref name=cannabis-salon /> She said that recommendation had not been on the label, and that she was informed of it the next day by a medical consultant at a factory producing edible cannabis products.<ref name=cannabis-slate >{{cite web|last1=Weissman|first1=Jordan|title=The Economic Lesson of Maureen Dowd’s Reefer Madness|url=http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2014/06/04/marijuana_edibles_what_maureen_dowd_s_bad_trip_teaches_us_about_the_new.html|website=Slate|accessdate=5 June 2014|year=2014-06-04}}</ref><ref name=cannabis-wapo>{{cite news|last1=Rosenberg|first1=Alyssa|title=What Maureen Dowd gets right about marijuana|url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/act-four/wp/2014/06/04/what-maureen-dowd-gets-right-about-marijuana/|accessdate=5 June 2014|work=The Washington Post|date=2014-06-04}}</ref>

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. ... We talked about edibles and how they affect everyone differently."<ref name=cannabist>{{cite news|last1=Baca|first1=Ricardo|title=Inside look at what NYT’s Dowd was told about edibles|url=http://www.thecannabist.co/2014/06/04/was-maureen-dowd-warned-about-edible-marijuana/13113/|accessdate=5 June 2014|work=The Cannabist|date=2014-04-04}}</ref> Dowd later responded: "Matt Brown gave me a great tour. There is no mention of edibles in my transcript of our interview, but we were together several hours and no doubt we did chat about it. ... I favor legalization, but given all the tourists streaming into Colorado, it would be better to err on the side of conservative cautions."<ref name=cannabist2 />


==Bibliography==
==Bibliography==

Revision as of 19:06, 6 June 2014

Maureen Dowd
Dowd at a Democratic Debate in Philadelphia, April 16, 2008
Born
Maureen Bridgid Dowd

(1952-01-14) January 14, 1952 (age 72)
Washington, D.C.
EducationB.A., Catholic University of America (1973)
Immaculata High School (1969)
OccupationColumnist
Notable credit(s)Washington Star
Time
The New York Times (1983–present)

Maureen Bridgid Dowd[2] (/daʊd/; born January 14, 1952) is an American columnist for The New York Times and best-selling author.[3][4] During the 1970s and the early 1980s, she worked for Time magazine and the Washington Star, where she covered news as well as sports and wrote feature articles.[3][4] Dowd joined the Times in 1983 as a metropolitan reporter and eventually became an Op-Ed writer for the newspaper in 1995.[3][4] In 1999, she was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for her series of columns on the Monica Lewinsky scandal in the Clinton administration.[3][5]

Early life and career

Dowd was born the youngest of three children in Washington, D.C.[3][4] and is of Irish American ancestry.[1] Her father, Mike, worked as a Washington, D.C. police inspector, while her mother, Peggy, was a homemaker.[2][6] Dowd graduated from Immaculata High School in 1969.[7] She received a B.A. in English in 1973 from The Catholic University in Washington, D.C.[3][4]

Dowd began her career in 1974 as an editorial assistant for the Washington Star, where she later became a sports columnist, metropolitan reporter, and feature writer.[3][4] When the newspaper closed in 1981, she went to work at Time.[3][4] In 1983, she joined The New York Times, initially as a metropolitan reporter.[3][4] She began serving as correspondent in the Times Washington bureau in 1986.[3][4]

In 1991, Dowd received a Breakthrough Award from Columbia University.[4] In 1992, she was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for national reporting,[4] and in 1994 she won a Matrix Award from New York Women in Communications.[4][8]

New York Times columnist, 1995–present

Dowd became a columnist on The New York Times Op-Ed page in 1995,[3][4] replacing Anna Quindlen,[6] who left to become a full-time novelist.[9] Dowd was named a Woman of the Year by Glamour magazine in 1996,[4] and won the 1999 Pulitzer Prize, for distinguished commentary.[3] She won The Damon Runyon Award for outstanding contributions to journalism in 2000,[10] and became the first Mary Alice Davis Lectureship speaker (sponsored by the School of Journalism and the Center for American History) at The University of Texas at Austin in 2005.[11] In 2010, Dowd was ranked #43 on The Daily Telegraph's list of the 100 most influential liberals in America; in 2007, she was ranked #37 on the same list.[12]

Dowd's columns have been described as letters to her mother, whom friends credit as "the source, the fountain of Maureen’s humor and her Irish sensibilities and her intellectual take."[2] Dowd herself has said, "she is in my head in the sense that I want to inform and amuse the reader."[13] Unabashedly politically liberal,[14][15] Dowd's columns are distinguished by an acerbic, often polemical writing style.[16] Her columns often display a critical and irreverent attitude towards powerful, mostly political, figures such as former Presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton. Dowd also tends to refer to her subjects by nicknames. For example, she has often referred to Bush as "W." and former Vice President Dick Cheney as "Big Time."[17] She has called President Barack Obama "Spock"[18] and "Barry". Dowd's interest in candidates' personalities earned her criticism early in her career: "She focuses too much on the person but not enough on policy."[2]

Dowd, who perceives her columns to be an exploration of politics, Hollywood, and gender related topics, often uses popular culture to support and metaphorically enhance her political commentary.[16] In a Times video debate, she said of the North Korean government: "...you could look at a movie like Mean Girls and figure out the way these North Koreans are reacting; you know it's like high school girls with nuclear weapons—they just want some attention from us, you know?"[19]

Dowd's columns have also been often described as political cartoons that capture the caricatured image of the current political landscape, with both precision and exaggeration.[2] In the run-up to the 2000 presidential election, for example, Dowd wrote that Democratic candidate "Al Gore is so feminized and diversified and ecologically correct that he's practically lactating",[20] while referring to the Democratic party as the "mommy party".[2] In a Fresh Dialogues interview years later, she said, "I was just teasing him a little bit because he was so earnest and he could be a little righteous and self important. That’s not always the most effective way to communicate your ideas, even if the ideas themselves are right. I mean, certainly his ideas were right but he himself was – sometimes – a pompous messenger for them." [13]

Talking Points Memo blogger "thejoshuablog" found a paragraph in Dowd's May 17, 2009 Times column that was similar to one in a May 14 blog post by TPM editor Josh Marshall, and accused her of plagiarism.[21][22][23][24] Dowd said the wording was "a line" told to her by a friend, and that she had never read the blog.[25][26] Since then, Dowd's column has been updated with a correction that references Marshall. The public editor for the Times, Clark Hoyt, said: "readers have a right to expect that even if an opinion columnist like Dowd tosses around ideas with a friend, her column will be her own words. If the words are not hers, she must give credit."[27]

2014 Colorado candy bar incident

In January 2014, Dowd went to Colorado, where she ate a cannabis-infused chocolate bar in her hotel room, which she had purchased legally. This resulted in her lying "curled up in a hallucinatory state for the next eight hours" according to her June 3, 2014, New York Times op-ed.[28][29]

Dowd said she ate "approximately a quarter" of the chocolate bar,[30] which she was later told should have been broken into sixteen pieces, causing her to become "too high".[31][28] She said that recommendation had not been on the label, and that she was informed of it the next day by a medical consultant at a factory producing edible cannabis products.[32][33]

Bibliography

  • Bushworld: Enter at Your Own Risk. G. P. Putnam's Sons. 2004. ISBN 0-425-20276-3.
  • Are Men Necessary? When Sexes Collide. Putnam. 2005. ISBN 0-7553-1550-2.

References

  1. ^ a b Dowd, Maureen (February 29, 1996). "Liberties; Gasping for Eire". The New York Times. "I'm an Irish Catholic and a journalist"; Dezell, Maureen (2001). Irish America: Coming into Clover. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. ISBN 0-385-49596-X. p.115: "As for the Irish voice in America, three female commentators on the New York Times op-ed page in the last decade of the last century were Anna Quindlen, Maureen Dowd, and Gail Collins"; Schmalzbauer, John Arnold (2003). People of Faith: Religious Conviction in American Journalism and Higher Education. Cornell University Press. ISBN 0-8014-3886-1. p. 18: "...Dowd succeeded Anna Quindlen, another Irish Catholic, on the Time's op-ed page. Other Catholic journalists at the Gray Lady include Elaine Sciolino, Peter Steinfels, and Robin Toner." p. 41: "The annual ranking of the top-fifty journalists by Washingtonian magazine routinely includes practicing Catholics such as...Maureen Dowd..."
  2. ^ a b c d e f Levy, Ariel (2005-10-31). "The Redhead and the Gray Lady". New York magazine. Retrieved 2010-02-18.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l "Columnist Biography: Maureen Dowd". The New York Times. 2002-04-16. Retrieved 2007-08-08. {{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n "The 1999 Pulitzer Prize Winners: Commentary: Biography". Columbia University. Retrieved 2009-05-19.
  5. ^ "The 1999 Pulitzer Prize Winners: Commentary: Citation". Columbia University. Retrieved 2009-05-19.
  6. ^ a b McDermott, Peter (2007-08-08). "Echo Profile: A necessary woman – Times' Dowd endeavors to keep W, Vice, and Rummy in check". The Irish Echo. Archived from the original on February 27, 2006. Retrieved 2007-08-08.
  7. ^ Schmalzbauer 2003, p. 18; "Singularly acerbic pen sets Dowd apart as Clinton critic; N.Y. Times' pundit keeps caustic watch on Washington". The Washington Times. September 25, 1996.
  8. ^ "Matrix Hall of Fame". New York Women in Communications. Retrieved 2007-08-08.
  9. ^ "Meet Newsweek – Anna Quindlen, Contributing Editor". Newsweek via msnbc.com. 2006-01-11. Archived from the original on 2007-05-08. Retrieved 2007-08-08.
  10. ^ "Maureen Dowd – The Damon Runyon Award, 1999–2000". The Denver Press Club. Archived from the original on 2006-07-20. Retrieved 2007-08-08.
  11. ^ [dead link]"Columnist Maureen Dowd Kicks Off New Lecture Series". University of Texas at Austin. Retrieved 2007-08-08.
  12. ^ Harnden, Toby (January 13, 2010). "The most influential US liberals: 60-41". The Daily Telegraph. London. Retrieved January 14, 2010.
  13. ^ a b Fresh Dialogues interview with Alison van Diggelen, April 2009
  14. ^ http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2011/04/08/liberals-grow-time-defund-planned-parenthood-npr-pet-projects/
  15. ^ http://www.commentarymagazine.com/topic/maureen-dowd/
  16. ^ a b Kurtz, Howard (2005-10-05). "Sex & the Single Stiletto". The Washington Post. pp. C01. Retrieved 2007-08-08.
  17. ^ Dowd, Maureen (2000-10-08). "Liberties; West Wing Chaperone". The New York Times. Retrieved 2009-05-24.
  18. ^ Dowd, Maureen (December 30, 2009). "As the Nation's Pulse Races, Obama Can't Seem to Find His". The New York Times. pp. A27. Retrieved January 3, 2010.
  19. ^ Brooks, David; Dowd, Maureen; Rich, Frank (speakers) (2006-07-19). U.S. Politics: What's Next?—2: Bush's Circle of Trust (Flash Video). The New York Times. Event occurs at 5:05. Retrieved 2009-05-19.
  20. ^ Stein, Jonathan (2007-11-19). "Maureen Dowd Rehashes the "Presidential Candidate X is a Wuss" Construct". MoJo (blog). Mother Jones and the Foundation for National Progress. Retrieved 2009-05-19.
  21. ^ Philips, Angela. “Transparency and the Ethics of the New Journalism” in Changing Journalism, p. 145 (Peter Lee-Wright, et al., eds., Routledge, 2011).
  22. ^ Luscombe, Belinda. “Is Maureen Dowd Guilty of Plagiarism?”, Time Magazine (May 18, 2009): “[I]t's ironic that the Pulitzer Prize winner fumbled in this area. Back in 1987, she caught then presidential-hopeful Joe Biden borrowing heavily from a British politician's speech.”
  23. ^ Cashill, Jack. Deconstructing Obama: The Life, Loves, and Letters of America's First Postmodern President, p. 89 (Simon and Schuster, 2011).
  24. ^ Mitchell, Greg. "UPDATE: Maureen Dowd in Hot Water, Did Not Attribute -- NYT Corrects", Editor and Publisher (May 17, 2009).
  25. ^ Baram, Marcus (2009-05-17). "Maureen Dowd Admits Inadvertently Lifting Line From TPM's Josh Marshall". The Huffington Post. Retrieved 2009-05-18.
  26. ^ "N.Y. Times' Dowd Admits Lifting Blogger's Words". Associated Press via Fox News Channel. 2009-05-18. Retrieved 2009-05-19.
  27. ^ Hoyt, Clark (2009-05-23). "The Writers Make News. Unfortunately". The New York Times. Retrieved 2009-05-24.
  28. ^ a b McDonough, Katie (2014-06-04). "Maureen Dowd ate a large dose of a marijuana chocolate bar, freaked out, wrote about it". Salon. Retrieved 5 June 2014.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: year (link)
  29. ^ Dowd, Maureen (2014-06-03). "Don't Harsh Our Mellow, Dude". The New York Times. Retrieved 5 June 2014.
  30. ^ Baca, Ricardo (2014-06-05). "NYT's Maureen Dowd reacts: In quest for fun, risks downplayed". The Cannabist. Retrieved 6 June 2014.
  31. ^ Walker, Hunter (2014-06-04). "Maureen Dowd Got Way Too High And Freaked Out". Business Insider. Retrieved 5 June 2014.
  32. ^ Weissman, Jordan (2014-06-04). "The Economic Lesson of Maureen Dowd's Reefer Madness". Slate. Retrieved 5 June 2014.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: year (link)
  33. ^ Rosenberg, Alyssa (2014-06-04). "What Maureen Dowd gets right about marijuana". The Washington Post. Retrieved 5 June 2014.
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