Across America, women are using hallucinogens to improve their marriages and mental health. Meet the ‘mushroom mommies.’

"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.”

  • HomerianSymphony@lemmy.world
    26·
    14 days ago

    mushrooms are pretty damn safe compared to doing cocaine, heroin,

    Are you saying you think increased mushroom use will lead to a decrease in cocaine and heroin use?

    Or is “better than heroin” the standard by which we decide substances should be applauded and encouraged?

    • cows_are_underrated@feddit.org
      41·
      14 days ago

      Are you saying you think increased mushroom use will lead to a decrease in cocaine and heroin use?

      Nice strawmann Argument you got there

      Or is “better than heroin” the standard by which we decide substances should be applauded and encouraged?

      Heroin is literally as bad as Alcohol(in terms of damage). Shrooms are so goddamn safe, that it is literally impossible to overdose in them. You might have a real fucking bad time but you won’t Die from them. Aside from psychological risks shrooms don’t really do any damage to your body. When you’re ranking them with other drugs they are the safest out of all of them.

      Source:

      https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2019/06/25/what-is-the-most-dangerous-drug

        • Gigasser@lemmy.world
          2·
          14 days ago

          He said that shrooms are safer. You thought the argument he made was that shrooms use would lead to a decrease in cocaine and heroin use. They aren’t the same argument.

          A straw man fallacy (sometimes written as strawman) is the informal fallacy of refuting an argument different from the one actually under discussion, while not recognizing or acknowledging the distinction.

          • HomerianSymphony@lemmy.world
            11·
            14 days ago

            A straw man fallacy (sometimes written as strawman) is the informal fallacy of refuting an argument different from the one actually under discussion

            And I did not do that.

            He said that shrooms are safer. You thought the argument he made was that shrooms use would lead to a decrease in cocaine and heroin use. They aren’t the same argument.

            I asked him if that’s what he was saying (and I honestly thought it might have been). I was asking for a clarification.

            I didn’t misframe what he was saying and then refute it.

            • Gigasser@lemmy.world
              1·
              14 days ago

              Ehh that’s fair. I guess I’m so used to the use of clarification questions(often ones that are asked in the most infuriating way possible) as a lead up to and reframing of a conversation into an area that it didn’t originally start as, that I thought such actions that you took as equivalent to strawmanning.