Jordan Coombs, seen at left when he was hospitalized for a THC overdose, said the marijuana edibles he accidentally consumed made him believe that he was having a heart attack and that he was going to die.

“It wasn’t on my list of things to do, but in the right circumstance … I might have tried something,” he said.

When he learned the fair had a Pot Pavilion, an exhibition for vendors selling marijuana paraphernalia and advertising new businesses, he asked his father to watch the kids while he and his wife visited the 21-and-up display. There were several signs posted around the pavilion indicating that no actual marijuana was on the fairgrounds, according to Coombs, since state law dictates that it has to be sold at a licensed dispensary.

“There was a lot of pipes and bongs and things like that, and a lot of Bob Marley posters and such,” he recalled. “It was kind of underwhelming.”

But a display of chocolates caught his eye.

“They had all the chocolates … like strawberry and mint-flavored ones, and so they had those ingredients all out and none of it was wrapped up, so it kind of looked like a Willy Wonka thing,” Coombs said. "There was just chocolate everywhere."

He said he took a few samples after being reassured they didn't contain any THC, the psychoactive ingredient in marijuana.

“I probably ate like four or five of the bars,” he said, noting that these weren't full-sized candy bars, but closer to fun-size candy handed out at Halloween. (On a related note, there were no reported cases of Colorado trick-or-treaters receiving infused candy as some had feared.)

Within about 20 minutes, Coombs felt high and told his wife as much. Then, he said, he progressively lost touch with reality and convinced his family to take him to the hospital.

His wife wasn't sure where the closest hospital was. Paranoid, Coombs accused her of trying to help kill him.

Once they got to a hospital, Coombs was given an IV and a test for THC that he said came back positive. Now, he's one of seven people in a class-action lawsuit against the company that makes the chocolates and he pledges to never again try an edible. The company Beyond Broadway LLC, which does business as Full Melt Chocolate and LivWell, did not respond to repeated requests for comment.

“One of the problems is that they come in essentially like a Tootsie Roll or one piece of chocolate, and that implies, ‘OK, I can just eat this and I’ll probably be alright,’” Coombs said. “It’s like, ‘No, you need to eat an eighth of that and you’ll probably really feel it.’ That’s not a good way to approach things, I suppose.”