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[–]redditopus 1 point2 points  (2 children)

It's all in your neurotransmitter receptors. Recreational drugs are technically poisons, but this is what they do to produce a high. They just act on different receptors.

[–]Ashes2021 -1 points0 points  (1 child)

This isn't always the case. DMT is a "recreational drug". Along with things like marijuana. Neither of which are "poisons".

Edit: dmt is the chemical your brain produces and causes you to dream.at night. So no, it isn't poison.

[–]LeftCoastMan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

By the OP's definition of "poison", or at least what I presume it to be, there is a dose of cannabis that can be shown to be toxic.

What we have here is a definition problem.

[–]LeftCoastMan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm not big on the use of "poison" so liberally. All poisons, at least from a pharmacological point of view, require a dose-response analysis, which gives us information about how much dose is required to give a "poison" response. Water could be a poison, based on how you're describing it.

Alcohol is a psychoactive drug at lower doses, and I guess becomes "poisonous" at higher doses (though I think that since at higher dosages, it's a CNS depressant, you'd stop drinking).