( It's the natural inclination of most stoners to insist when they hear it doesn't have any effect on me. Their first reaction is typically something along the lines of you're just not inhaling properly, followed by an enthusiastic but slightly patronizing demonstration. Ian might've fallen into the same trap a couple of years ago, but--

They're on an alien fucking planet, he has magic powers, and the number of non-human people he knows is rapidly increasing by the day. He's going to go with the assumption that she knows her biology far better than he does, and instead pass the joint to the person off to her right. )

Well--

( He says, voice a little thick from the last traces of smoke leaving his lungs. )

Let me ask you a question before I answer that. If weed doesn't have any effect on you, is your metabolism just insanely high? I mean-- have you ever been drunk? Does alcohol do anything for you?