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Caffeine is a psychoactive substance of the stimulant class. You could definitely categorize it as a "drug".

• esperent 1y ago
  I know, I'm taking issue with calling sugar a drug, not caffeine.
  • pixelpoet 1y ago
    If I told you a consumable substance is mind-altering, habit-forming, pleasurable and difficult to quit, very bad for your health in the quantities most abusers take it, but they continue to do so anyway- what would you call it? I've always maintained that most "drugs" are just drugs other people dislike, and everyone is apparently happy to go along with this cognitive dissonance; hence the common phrase "drugs and alcohol", "drunk driving" vs "drug driving" etc etc.
    • esperent 1y ago
      > If I told you a consumable substance is mind-altering, habit-forming, pleasurable and difficult to quit, very bad for your health in the quantities most abusers take it, but they continue to do so anyway- what would you call it? Macdonald's food?