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Scientifically alcohol is a drug, culturally it isn't called that. Even go somewhere where people don't drink and they wouldn't use the term "drugs" as an umbre
by corin_ 13y ago
Scientifically alcohol is a drug, culturally it isn't called that. Even go somewhere where people don't drink and they wouldn't use the term "drugs" as an umbrella to include alcohol.
> "Of course a local liquor store is a drug dealer."
Yes, technically correct, but just like jschmitz28 it's incredibly pedantic. The phrase "drug dealer" isn't used to mean "someone who technically sells drugs", it's used to mean "someone who sells illegal recreational drugs". In this case the mom and pop version is what absolutely everyone uses.
- Myrmornis 13y ago> Even go somewhere where people don't drink and they wouldn't use the term "drugs" as an umbrella to include alcohol. Ah, interesting, I didn't know that. How many muslim cultures and languages are you familiar with?
- corin_ 13y agoThat's my experience when people are speaking English, whether first language or not, in other languages I have no idea.
- Myrmornis 13y agoRight, but alcohol is currently legal in most English-speaking jurisdictions. So the places you're referring to are the least relevant to the question of whether alcohol is considered a "drug" by modern humans.