From the New York Times, I'm Rachel Abrams, and this is the Daily.

This election day,

day recreational marijuana could become legal across more than half of the

United States. But as more Americans consume more potent forms of the drug

more often.

A Times investigation has revealed that some of the heaviest users

are experiencing serious and unexpected harms to their health.

Today, I spoke with my colleague did harms to their health.

Today, I spoke with my colleague,

investigative reporter Megan Toey, about what she found. It's Tuesday, October 22nd.

It's Tuesday, October 22nd.

Hi Megan. Hey Rachel.

Thank you for being here.

So Megan, today we're going to talk about something that a lot of people, myself included, have at least a glancing

familiarity with, and that's marijuana.

So tell me, first of all, how did you come to this story?

Well, full disclosure, I am one of those people who has some familiarity with marijuana.

I have dabbled in it on and off stretching back to the 1990s. And so I as a consumer have also been among those who have noticed

the drastic transformation of marijuana in this country in recent years as legalization

spread and the commercialized legal industry sprung up and began offering products.

And so, you know, here in New York, a couple years ago when we implemented the legalization

of recreational marijuana, there was sort of all of a sudden dispensary selling products on nearly like every

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