Originally Posted by mikemhg (Post 8303786)

Are you a square? You will be hard pressed to find a guy who sells weed, who will also happen to have Coke, Molly, etc to sell you at the same time.

Give me a break. That was a laughable post. You have a better chance asking a random downtown for Coke than asking your pot dealer.

Originally Posted by AAnthony (Post 8304312)

Put some more effort into your counter arguments...

I could down a whole bottle and it wouldn't alter my state of consciousness. I would overdose on the other ingredients before I got remotely close to being high.
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Originally Posted by Nightwalker (Post 8304582)

You wouldn't get high, but you might get dead. I'd probably consider that an alteration in your state of consciousness.

Originally Posted by Graeme S (Post 8303742)

Plus one to what Alatar said, and also some other points.

When people compare acetaminophen and weed or ibuprofen and booze, they're making a mistake by conflating [medicinal] drugs and [recreational] drugs. Medicinal drugs have been specifically designed, often over several generations or iterations, to produce an exact medical result. The reduction of inflammation, the reduction or elimination of pain and so on and so forth. When it comes to over the counter medications, this difference is quite clear. When it comes to prescription medications, however, the differences become more negligible.

Percocet, methadone, codeine and other medicinal drugs can be taken or used recreationally. This makes them no less effective as medicinal drugs, but does cause people to have the line between the types of drugs blurred and results in the kinds of arguments we are seeing here.

While Tylenol is a legal drug of which you can consume as much as you like, it is also completely controlled. The companies who produce it are strictly regulated and licensed and monitored. The chemical components that are used to make the drug and bind them together into the pills and caplets that you take are equally monitored and regulated.

The question is not whether or not people will get high. People will get high from legal recreational drugs, illegal recreational drugs, or even legal consumer products that aren't supposed to be used in that way (gasoline, compressed air cans &c &c). The question is how we can manage to have as few people addicted as possible, and to reduce the risks to those people as much as possible--if for no other reason, then simply to reduce the strain on the medical system for the rest of us.