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[–] 15 points 3 months ago (13 children)
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    Non-consensually tripping, confused and frightened. Physically affected to the point the adults called 999. EMTs took one to hospital "due to a pre-existing condition," but it was triggered by consuming the edibles. The others were termed "stable" which is not the same as "fine." We don't have much data on how psilocybin affects children's minds and bodies, although I guess we have a little more now.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 months ago (7 children)
  • [+] -7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (6 children)

    Drug: Any substance that, when taken into a living organism, may modify one or more of its functions.
    https://www.tabers.com/tabersonline/view/Tabers-Dictionary/736911/all/drug

    E.G. - acetyl salicylic acid (aspirin), vitamin C, water, oxygen, apples etc.

    I.E - we're all drugged.

    EDIT: added apples.

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  • [–] 11 points 3 months ago

    Since we're being pedantic:

    Drugged -

    1. affected, intoxicated, or stupefied by or as if by a drug or the habitual use of drugs
    1. containing an illicit intoxicating drug usually added surreptitiously

    Not that you really needed the clarification, since you obviously just want to be obnoxious for no real reason.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    That's not a useful definition of drugs and you know it

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  • [–] 0 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    I want to hear your definition of drugs.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    "A drug is any chemical substance other than a nutrient or an essential dietary ingredient, which, when administered to a living organism, produces a biological effect."

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    Thanks, that's a good one one. I was wondering where exactly you disagreed with the previous definition, and that's reasonable.

    Not trying to gotcha or anything, I just think it's fun, but niacin is an example of a substance that is a nutrient but can also produce a drug effect ("niacin flush") when taken in large (non-nutritive) quantities.

    So for me personally, whether something is a drug or not depends less on the identity of the substance, and more on the specific interaction with the organism, and what effect is most salient to observers. I don't have a pithy definition handy, though.

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  • [–] -5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

    Tabers was the first proper medical dictionary I found on DDG search. It is one I have a physical copy of on the shelf in the room behind me. I merely copied the definition, and gave examples of substances ("any substance"). U/cattywampus, have I upset some sort of applecart that you were holding onto? I once had a lawyer attempt to impune my credentials in a depostion, by asking if I prescribed drugs. He wouldn't define the term. In that case it's best to find an accepted reference, and submit that definition. In the moment I did not, alas. All the same my client won their case. Moral: Don't let lawyers play word games with you; call them on that immediately and with references.

    edited for clarity.

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