Re: Possible Pot Roach Sends Pup to Vet, Nov. 2 story.
It appears it may be some time yet before our society’s reefer madness is finally cured. Neither (dog owner) Amanda Birrell nor (veterinarian) John Bratty has any idea what her dog ate that made it so sick.
In fact, Birrell admits she didn’t even see her dog eating whatever it was that it ate in an environment apparently rife with mushrooms – and yet her speculative and unlikely assessment (since it’s highly unlikely that a dog would get that sick from eating a roach, not to mention that cannabis consumption in humans does not cause diarrhea or vomiting) is considered worthy of a story.
And John Bratty’s unsubstantiated assertion that, after paying good money for cannabis products, consumers routinely discard them in alleys or toss them over fences, rather than consuming them, is beyond ludicrous.
Further, instead of engaging in wild speculation about the cause of the dog’s illness, Bratty could have simply ensured that he captured some of the dog’s urine in his clinic, and then had it tested for metabolites of marijuana.
The reality is that neither Birrell nor Bratty has any idea what that dog ate that made it so ill, so this incident was hardly worthy of a major article, assuming it was worthy of being mentioned at all.
George Kosinski
Gibsons, B.C.
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