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What about meth, fentanyl or oxycotin? (to name just a few)

I would consider these more literal poison by comparison to alcohol by any objective manner. If they are all legal, then access/addiction/intoxication are not even close to compare to alcohol, they are all far worse.



They're not poison though based on they way they work with neuroreceptors whereas alcohol limits neurotransmission all together. None of them are good, and in excess they're both terrible.


An argument I have often heard is that everything can be poison based on the amount ingested.

Therefore, if we can classify water as poison (which it can be) it sort of makes any of these simplistic comparisons moot.




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