Luke Goodman's Family Links Suicide To Pot Edibles: Can Recreational Marijuana Raise Suicidal Thoughts?
Two weeks of skiing and snowboarding for this Tulsa family ended in tragedy when the death of 23-year-old Luke Goodman became the third allegedly linked to marijuana edibles. Goodman, who was acting “pretty weird and relatively incoherent” after consuming the edible pot with his cousin, Caleb Fowler, committed suicide this past Saturday after ingesting more than the recommended amount of peach tart candies containing 10mg of THC per piece of candy.
According to Goodman’s mother, Kim, her son never showed signs of depressive symptoms or ever gave the family a reason to worry about his mental state. She also explained that Goodman most likely did not read the warning label which stated: “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 10mg.”
Fowler said that he and Goodman travelled from Keystone to Silverthorne back to Keystone on Saturday afternoon, purchasing $78 worth of marijuana and marijuana edibles in the process. A few hours after consuming five times the recommended dose (five pieces of candy), Fowler said his cousin began to act “jittery” before becoming completely unresponsive.
As Goodman’s family members were getting ready to leave the condo they all rented, he decided he would stay in. At some point after their departure, Goodman used the gun he keeps for protection to end his life.
“It was 100 percent the drugs,” Kim Goodman told CBS Denver. “It was completely because of the drugs — he had consumed so much of it. It was completely out of character for Luke. There was no depression or anything that would leave us being concerned, nothing like that. I would love to see edibles taken off the market. I think edibles are so much more dangerous.”