It’s Dog and Buds, Dude

This is not a post about dogs and their best friends (us), well not exactly. It’s more about how the legalization of medical marijuana in the Pacific Northwest has an added side effect, a problem vets are seeing more of these days, dogs on drugs. Apparently dogs are ingesting discarded joints, blunts, or buds during their walks in local parks and ending up lethargic, shaky, and disoriented and sometimes close to death. The result is often an expensive emergency visit to the veterinarian. An emergency vet tech at an Eagle Rock, California clinic claims to have been treating two or three stoner dogs a night as a result of these sorts of incidents. Cat owners get a pass here because cats appear to be more discerning and consequently less often poisoned by ingesting marijuana. It would seem that pet owners and other humans are the ones that should really be more discerning… about where they stash their stash (or trash). That or teach the pooches to just say no.