"But Rachel also has another hobby, one that makes her a bit different from the other moms in her Texas suburb—not that she talks about it with them. Once a month or so, after she and her husband put the kids to bed, Rachel texts her in-laws—who live just down the street—to make sure they’re home and available in the event of an emergency.

“And then, Rachel takes a generous dose of magic mushrooms, or sometimes MDMA, and—there’s really no other way to say this— spends the next several hours tripping balls.”

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    13 hours ago

    That the thing. You’re guessing.

    This is not supposed to be about guessing.

    They do not reveal the source of their numbers and any searching I do goes back to David Nutt, who does not explain where he got the data.

    You both need to be more skeptical about this sort of thing. Even if cannabis can lead to lung cancer that doesn’t mean this data is anywhere near accurate.

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      7 hours ago

      What do you mean even if?

      Smoke from burning that plant isn’t somehow magic and different to all other smoke.

      Inhaling smoke can lead to cancer.

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          46 minutes ago

          I’m not evading anything. Your entire argument throughout this submission has ultimately whittled down to a disbelief that inhaling smoke can have adverse health effects and, yes, cause cancer.

          Why say “if”? It’s not “if” - it is a well-established fact of biology.

          You may as well be saying “if the world really is a sphere”, or “if climate change is real”.

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              39 minutes ago

              Stop the sealioning.

              Firstly, there’s nothing suggest they’re suspect.

              And secondly, back to what I’m actually talking about, you’re clearly trying to cast doubt on whether breathing in smoke is bad for you. There is no “if”. Smoking does cause cancer.

              And it may shock you to find out that cancer does indeed cause death (it’s true, cancer really does cause death. I can give you sources on that if you like).