Feel free to be loose with your definitions. “Not usually considered a drug” is fine to qualify as “non-drug”, for instance. I’m not really thinking so much of “foods”, though, but maybe “food ingredients” and substances found in food ingredients are fine, especially if they’re quasi-drug-like or if you’d get a lot of the same benefits/enjoyment from it consuming it straight rather than in food.
Also ITT, tell other users why their substances actually are drugs actually.
Mine:
- Chamomile - good for my mood and gives me vivid dreams.
- Capsaicin - I and Wilbur Scoville are well acquainted.
- Cacao - I don’t really do cacao any more because I’ve quit caffeine, but I include it here because I still miss sucking on unsweetend baker’s chocolate daily.
Especially in the early days of the recent Kratom “boom”, I definitely heard a lot of people call it “not a drug”. I think kindof in the same way as there are lots of psychoactive substances that people don’t consider “drugs”. (Chamomile that I listed in my OP, for instance. People feed that shit to their little kids and don’t think of it even slightly like they think of alcohol or hard drugs or whatever. But that shit’s a GABA agonist just like alcohol, GHB, and benzos. There’s definitely a sense of the word “drug” in which chamomile is super duper for sure yes a drug.) I think mostly those folks were in deep denial. It’s not just a drug, but a pretty concerning one for its addiction potential if nothing else. But still, I’ve heard people say it’s “not a drug”. So, yeah. I think it counts for purposes of this thread.