Pubdate: Fri, 27 Mar 2015
Source: Denver Post (CO)
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Author: Ricardo Baca

OKLAHOMA MAN SHOOTS SELF AFTER EATING POT CANDIES

A 22-year-old Oklahoma man fatally shot himself with his gun on 
Saturday while on a family ski vacation in Colorado, according to 
reports from the Summit County sheriff's and coroner's offices.

The family of the man, Luke Gregory Goodman, is blaming his suicide 
on the multiple doses of marijuana-infused edibles he ingested just 
hours before his selfinflicted death, according to witnesses and reports.

Goodman, a Tulsa resident and graduate of Oral Roberts University, 
died just after 4 a.m. Tuesday morning at St. Anthony's Hospital in 
Lakewood after more than two days on life support, according to 
Summit County Coroner Regan Wood.

"It was 100 percent the drugs," Goodman's mother, Kim, told Denver TV 
station CBS4, noting her son was well-adjusted. "It was completely 
because of the drugs - he had consumed so much of it."

When contacted by phone Thursday, Kim Goodman declined to comment. 
She is planning a memorial service for her son Friday in Tulsa and is 
calling for action against Colorado's marijuana laws.

"I would love to see edibles taken off the market," she told CBS4.

Wood said "the circumstances and manner surrounding the death are 
consistent with a suicide." The cause of death, the coroner said, is 
a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head. Summit County sheriff 's 
spokeswoman Taneil Ilano said the case is under investigation.

Wood is awaiting a toxicology report, which could take three weeks. 
Wood did note that witnesses said Goodman "had consumed a large 
amount of edible marijuana candies prior to his death."
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