Not all of them were drunk. This most likely happened because they're routinely using Signal to avoid government record keeping laws, to avoid creating evidence of their more serious crimes.
Definitely not 100% external. A chunk of cases are known to be genetic.
And these people were eating a mushroom known to be mildly poisonous.
Exactly. There's a reason I won't eat any Amanita: the similarity of edible and deadly species in that genus makes them the main source of mushroom fatalities in North America.
By contrast, messing up a bolete ID is likely to result in a meal that is too bitter to eat. That's a much more acceptable risk.
And these days, that means making sure it's a book written by someone who knows what they are doing, rather than AI auto-generated bullshit.
If you know what you're doing, you get incredible deliciousness.
Given that the US is nuclear-armed, change isn't going to come from the outside. It has to come from the inside. And that means building up enough support in places which have been voting for Republicans. This is one of many tools for achieving that.
And to be clear, "death" isn't much of an exaggeration:
It's not stupid; it's fraud aimed at the courts.
The plan is explicity to force states to change their rules by illegally withholding money from them and their citizens until the states change their rules