Coffee, sugar, alcohol, and cigarettes are all legalized drugs

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Coffee, sugar, alcohol, and cigarettes are all legalized drugs.

I am tempted to think this is true because they are all brain stimulants, but then again sugar is naturally occuring so i guess this depends on what defines a drug. Where does one begin in defining what a drug is?

What do you think?
 
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Well, alcohol is actually a depressant and nicotine can be also.

I guess you could start defining a drug as a drug when it changes or interferes with brain chemistry/neurology in some way. That’s a complete guess on my part though.
 
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There are many ways to define “drug”. In its simplest form, a drug is a substance (other than food) intended to affect the structure or any function of the body.
 
Then most food is a drug. Fasting is also a drug because they aim to cleanse your physical system and thus affect it (in a good way).
 
No, by most definitions food is not a drug. Fasting is abstaining, not a substance.
 
Anything that can produce positive feelings can become addictive. Food, sex, shopping, even people… etc. While I do think government should control those substances which are unnecessary, extremely addictive, and dangerous to health, it is up to the individual to manage his reactions to those things which are necessary for health.
 
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A substance that alters the sense of reality. This is how I would describe a drug. Like alcohol for an alcoholic and strong drugs. Not all drugs can create euphoria. One colleague of my brother went to Holland and tried shrooms. He was told to do it in his hotel room and close all windows and doors. What he experienced was a flock of rinoceros coming over him. He saw and felt every kick and stepping over he got from them. He said he will never try shrooms again.
Alcohol creates similar unpleasant visions is rare cases of delirium tremens. So it can’t be about euforia. It has to do with losing track of reality.
Sugar and tobacco aren’t drugs by this definition just unhealthy. I was given many sweets as a kid yet I gave it up easy when I grew up and could decide what I eat. Example given.
 
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What about metoprolol which regulates heart rate and blood pressure. If we are limiting it to just things that haveeffects on mood, brain, or psyche then never mind.
 
1a : a substance used as a medication or in the preparation of medication
b according to the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act
(1) : a substance recognized in an official pharmacopoeia or formulary (see FORMULARY sense 3)
(2) : a substance intended for use in the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease
prescription drugs
drugs for treating high blood pressure
(3) : a substance other than food intended to affect the structure or function of the body
(4) : a substance intended for use as a component of a medicine but not a device or a component, part, or accessory of a device
2 : something and often an illegal substance that causes addiction, habituation (see HABITUATION sense 2b), or a marked change in consciousness
keeping teens off drugs
heroin and other hard drugs
3 : a commodity that is not salable or for which there is no demand (see DEMAND entry 1 sense 3a) —used in the phrase drug on the market
4 obsolete : a substance used in dyeing or chemical operations
 
To quote Wikipedia on this (because it’s a good summary):
A drug is any substance (other than food that provides nutritional support) that, when inhaled, injected, smoked, consumed, absorbed via a patch on the skin, or dissolved under the tongue causes a temporary physiological (and often psychological) change in the body.
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That said, there’s of course considerations for what should be freely available, restricted, or completely banned. There is, obviously, a vast difference between caffeine and meth.
 
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