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There's a pretty intuitive difference between moonshine and a banana.


But not between a joint and a twinkie, or 20oz soda, or a deep fried <anything>.


I'm not sure. Anything that has psychoactive effects seems like it would be in a league of its own (caffeine, alcohol, cocaine, LSD, etc.).


It's not intuitively obvious that acetaminophen has a startlingly small therapeutic window, especially when combined with alcohol. It's not intuitively obvious that alcohol may reduce all-cause mortality in a hormesis-like fashion, with low chronic consumption reducing risk but high chronic consumption increasing it. Pharmacology == intuition goes out the window.


That's kind of my point, acetaminophen is a psychoactive drug.




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