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They're food? They don't get dragged around in casks? They have no effect on metabolic function? You have a third definition of "drug"? (Anything not a "natural supplement"?)

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This sounds like an attempt to confuse and obfuscate to me. The definition of "drug" has nothing to do with the measures of metabolic function. Drugs may or may not have any effect on metabolism. Drugs are chemicals, mostly concocted in a laboratory and then tested on animals to see what they do, which is what determines what they are marketed for. Bottom line: drugs are chemical substances that have nothing to do with the complex substances God put into nature.

If you want to have a rational discussion of this topic, it is necessary to stay away from silly irrelevant definitions like "something that gets dragged around in casks."

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Are sand and helium "drugs"? Clearly you don't consider opium to be a drug. You also refuse to consider the etymology of the word. You're a drug on this market, and I'm done with you.

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Opium is being used as a STREET drug. It is poisonous just like jimsonweed, locoweed, marijuana, and others. Some plants are simply poisonous. I'm not including them in remedies because they are not remedies. Sand and helium are not drugs. They are natural substances. The etymology of a word is not the issue. How it is USED is the issue. Meanings of words change. DRUGS are the chemicals pharmaceutical companies manufacture. The etymology of the word "drug" is NOT AN ISSUE. I'm glad you are done with me because you don't make any sense, and I hate trying to have a civil discussion with people who aren't capable of it.

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