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smoking joints laced with stuff (Bernie wrote about that in the book he put out before he died "I ain't scared of you: Bernie Mac on how life is"). So that's a possibility from smoking.
As far as eating.........
http://denver.cbslocal.com/2015/03/25/marijuana-edibles-blamed-for-keystone-death/
Marijuana Edibles Blamed For Keystone Death
March 25, 2015 6:00 PM
DENVER (CBS4) – The family of a Tulsa, Oklahoma, man who shot himself Saturday night in Keystone is blaming his suicide on his ingestion of edible marijuana candies.
“It was completely a reaction to the drugs,” Kim Goodman said about her son Luke’s Saturday night suicide.
Luke Goodman’s death is now the third death in Colorado linked to marijuana edibles.
The 23-year-old college graduate was in the midst of a two-week ski and snowboard vacation with family members. Saturday afternoon he and his cousin, Caleb Fowler, took a bus from Keystone to Silverthorne where Fowler says they bought $78 worth of edibles and marijuana.
“He was excited to do them,” Fowler told CBS4.
When the young men got back to Keystone, Fowler said they began ingesting the edible pot. He said his cousin favored some peach tart candies, each piece of candy containing 10 mg of the active ingredient in marijuana, the recommended dose for an adult consuming an edible.
But when Goodman consumed several and experienced no immediate effects he kept gobbling them up.
“Luke popped two simultaneously” after the first two didn’t seem to do anything, said Fowler.
Then he said Goodman took a fifth candy, five times the recommended dose. His mother says her son likely didn’t see the warning on the back of the container which says, “The intoxicating effects of this product may be delayed by two or more hours … the standardized serving size for this product includes no more than 10 mg.”
Several hours later Fowler said his cousin became “jittery” then incoherent and talking nonsensically.
“He would make eye contact with us but didn’t see us, didn’t recognize our presence almost. He had never got close to this point, I had never seen him like this,” Fowler said.
owler says Goodman became “pretty weird and relatively incoherent. It was almost like something else was speaking through him.”
When family members left the condo Goodman refused to join them. After they left he got a handgun that he typically traveled with for protection, and turned it on himself.
Summit County Coroner Regan Wood says the preliminary cause of death is a self-inflicted gunshot wound. As for the impact of the marijuana edibles, she said, “That’s what we’ve heard consistently.”
She said the impact the edibles had on Goodman will be more clear when toxicology results come back in a few weeks.
“It’s still under investigation,” said Wood.
While definitive answers may be weeks away, Kim Goodman, Luke Goodman’s mother, told CBS4 she knows why her son took his own life.
“It was 100 percent the drugs,” she said. “It was completely because of the drugs — he had consumed so much of it.”
She said her son was well adapted, well-adjusted and had no signs of depression or suicidal thoughts.
“It was completely out of character for Luke … there was no depression or anything that would leave us being concerned, nothing like that.”
Caleb Fowler echoed the feeling saying he fully believed the ingestion of so much marijuana laced candy triggered the suicide.
“He was the happiest guy in the world. He had everything going for him.”
A year ago a Wyoming college student jumped to his death from a Denver hotel balcony after eating a marijuana cookie. Witnesses said Levy Thamba Pongi was rambling incoherently after eating the cookie. The Denver coroner ruled “marijuana intoxication” was a significant factor in Pongi’s death.
Richard Kirk of Denver faces first-degree murder charges stemming from the fatal shooting of his wife in Denver last year. Before her death his wife called 911 and said her husband had eaten marijuana candy and taken prescription medication and was hallucinating.
Luke Goodman’s family is now planning a memorial service for Friday in Tulsa. His mother says she remembers her last interaction with her son.
“We both said ‘I love you’ and I said ‘Have a great week.’”
Kim Goodman told CBS4 she believes marijuana edibles should be removed from store shelves.
“I would love to see edibles taken off the market … I think edibles are so much more dangerous.”
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Suburban Chicago housekeeper hospitalized after unwittingly eating pot brownie
Two young men made the brownies for themselves, but left them on a counter. They face charges for violating a local Orland Park ordinance.
http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/health/pot-brownie-sends-unknowing-housekeeper-hospital-article-1.1396117
BY SASHA GOLDSTEIN NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Thursday, July 11, 2013, 1:51 PM
Even the brownies have gone to pot.
A housekeeper tasked with cleaning a suburban Chicago home ended up hospitalized after she unknowingly ate brownies laced with weed.
Two men, 22 and 23, used the Orland Park, Ill. home to make the trippy treats last month and left them on a kitchen counter, the Chicago Tribune reported. When the 57-year-old woman came to clean the pad, owned by the 23-year-old’s parents, who were out of town, she ate a fudgy brownie and got more than she bargained for.
The unwittingly drug-addled maid told the 23-year-old she felt sick, so he called her an ambulance. Once at the hospital, the woman tested positive for marijuana, sparking a police investigation.
The men ultimately admitted to making the pot brownies and the 22-year-old led cops to a trash can where they had tossed the rest of the batch. The Tupperware containers filled with brownies “smelled very strong of marijuana,” a police report said.
Both men were charged with violating the town's reckless-conduct ordinance and are scheduled for a hearing Aug. 13. The maid, who has since recovered, doesn’t plan on pressing charges, the Tribune reports.
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