• Queen HawlSera
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    -76 months ago

    Now if we could just agree that a plant that grows naturally is not a fucking drug

    • @havokdj
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      176 months ago

      Just because something psychoactive grows in nature doesn’t mean it is not a drug. Anything that has a physical or psychoactive effect, or anything at all beyond nutrition, is a drug. DMT, Salvia, Psilocin, Mescaline, Phenethylamine, Opium, these are all indeed drugs.

      The reason you said this is because the word drug has a (very unfair) negative association because it is used as a blanket term to describe the reason someone acts a certain way on them, therefore making it seem that all drugs are bad (drugs, like anything in life, are only bad if you abuse them).

      • Queen HawlSera
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        -16 months ago

        I tend to associate the word drug with something made in a lab for a medicinal or elective purpose. Hence why we call pharmacies “Drug Stores” and not “Herbal Stations”

      • @[email protected]
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        -36 months ago

        there is a very specific legal definition of a drug which the FDA has clarified as anything that is intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.