Is It Safe To Give Your Pet Some of Your Pot Brownie?

If you haven't heard yet, marijuana is now legal in Colorado. But, in order to get high, you don't necessarily have to smoke the drug... You can eat it too. So if you go to the local dispensary and grab yourself a weed cookie, brownie, spaghetti sauce (yes, it really exists), or whatever other edible you desire, is it cool to give your dog a little taste too? 

First off, I didn't do the research, but I have always been told not to give a dog chocolate, so I would personally recommend not giving the dog any of your brownie whether or not it has weed in it.

That being said, weed is bad, VERY BAD actually, for your pets. According to NBC News:

While dogs can, and do, eat plant material, including marijuana leaves, serious poisonings more often result from edibles prepared by owners for their own use.

Marijuana butter is especially dangerous. “People put weed and a stick of butter in a sauce pan and the fat soluble cannabinoids leech into the butter creating a much higher concentration of THC,”  [Dr. Tina Wismer, director of the Animal Poison Control Center] explained.

While you think that it might be funny because of how your animal will act if you get them high, it probably wouldn't be funny for long...

Animals don’t react the same way as humans,” explained Wismer. “They may become sedated, act drunk and wobbly, but about 25 percent go the other way. They become agitated, have high heart rates, they’re in distress. Most dogs become incontinent. They stagger around dribbling urine everywhere.”

Blood pressure can soar. Without treatment, dogs can go into comas and die.

Plus, the way I understand it, you have to stand in line forever to get weed and it costs you an arm and a leg. Fido would like a doggie biscuit that wasn't tainted just as well, and it will be less likely to kill him!

Moral of the story: Don't give your dog any weed!