• givesomefucks
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    6 days ago

    Because one is legal and one isn’t…

    If alcohol or tobacco was illegal, they’d be treated like illegal drugs

    Laws aren’t always correct.

    Do you understand it now?

    • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz
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      6 days ago

      That’s circular reasoning. “It’s considered a drug because it’s illegal, and it’s illegal because it’s considered a drug.”

      It hard to start somewhere. Look back in history and see where it started.

    • papalonian
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      6 days ago

      So if cannabis is a “drug” because it’s illegal and alcohol is “alcohol” because it’s legal, why is ibuprofen a “drug” and not “alcohol”? Or maybe, did you misunderstand something, and the condescending tone is not only embarrassing, but completely unwarranted?

    • Undearius@lemmy.ca
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      6 days ago

      Because one is legal and one isn’t…

      Both alcohol and cannabis are legal.

      But they are still treated very differently legally despite both being drugs.

    • M137@lemmy.today
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      5 days ago

      This is so dumb, and both of you are very obviously 'Murica brained where you just can’t think of any difference there is oitside the US. Both Alcohol and Nicotine are drugs, and so are medications, they’re just legal drugs. It’s not “not a drug” and “drug (meaning illegal”, it’s “legal drug” and “illegal drug”.

      • zeppo
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        5 days ago

        Another thing to note is that fentanyl, cocaine and methamphetamine are all legal for medical purposes, but are considered “drugs” in the illicit sense.