3rd Party Script Breaking my JS - javascript

I have a 3rd party script that displays some data on my site. When the script loads it breaks all of the JS on any page the script is in. I remove the script and my page works without issue.
Are there ways to prevent 3rd party scripts from interacting with my page in a way the breaks the page?
Notes:
I have no access to the 3rd party script to edit.
I am using jQuery for the scripts that are breaking. I have in place jQuery.noConflict yet it still breaks the page.
I have attempted to load the script in an iframe to see if that made a difference. It did not.
The script does write data to the page, mainly CSS and HTML
Note: The below code may contain references/links to drug content, mainly marijuana.
I am building a site for a medical marijuana dispensary. I am importing the menu of the dispensary from a site called WeedMaps. Their embed code looks like this:
<script type="text/javascript">var wmenu_id = 1111;</script> //The number correlates to the menu I need to pull, I have changed it in this question
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://legalmarijuanadispensary.com/components/com_weedmenu/weedmenu-widget.js"></script>
When I use the above code the JS of my site breaks. How to I prevent my code from breaking when using 3rd party scripts over which I have no control.
UPDATE
Here is a JS Fiddle. The menu opens but doesn't close properly. Remove the script that is generating the menu from weedmaps and the menu works correctly. (The weedmaps menu script is in the bottom of the HTML panel.)

Hmm, not having much luck. I'll add what I have, since it may trigger further ideas from you. However, in short, I think their script isn't written particularly well, and that they really do need to fix it on their end.
As it stands, Firefox shows this error when animating the menus:
TypeError: jQuery.easing[jQuery.easing.def] is not a function
This blog suggests that this occurs when the Easing plugin is loaded before jQuery. Fine, I thought - we just need to load the WeedMenu script after our jQuery has loaded. So I tried the following (with help from here):
$j.getScript('http://legalmarijuanadispensary.com/components/com_weedmenu/weedmenu-widget.js');
That gave me this error:
A call to document.write() from an asynchronously-loaded external script was ignored.
Turns out that occurs as a result of the WM script using document.write, which is desperately out of date. So that lead me on to find crapLoader, which is meant to handle this sort of thing:
crapLoader.loadScript("http://legalmarijuanadispensary.com/components/com_weedmenu/weedmenu-widget.js", "menu-script");
Unfortunately that brings me back to the original Easing error.
Here's my fork - let me know if you find anything!

The script is not well written, I was able to solve my issue by removing a line of code from the script. The link I provided list to a longer script. The script had this line of code:
try {
b("http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.2/jquery.min.js"), "function" != typeof wmenu_strains_callback && b("http://legalmarijuanadispensary.com/components/com_weedmenu/weedmenu.js", !0)
}
if I remove b("http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.2/jquery.min.js"), then the script works and my page works. What was happening was the script was inserting jQuery into the bottom of my head and breaking the rest of my javascript.

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