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Message: <blockquote data-quote="michaeldavid" data-source="post: 399404" data-attributes="member: 57211">Actually I was talking about literal drugs, rather than mere figurative drugs.The point I was making is that there is, I believe, a profound problem of communication that underlies this thread's question. And one way of addressing this problem of communication is, quite simply, by highlighting it.So if I see someone write "I have never used drugs", then I point out that they are either (very likely) plain wrong (since caffeine, for example, is a drug), or (perhaps entirely unwittingly) they really meant to speak of ILLEGAL drugs.I believe the problem of communication that commonly surrounds the word 'drug' is not entirely unrelated to the anxiousness that most insulin-using diabetics feel about using syringes rather than pen-injectors.For when most people see an apparrently non-medical individual using a syringe in a non-medical environment, they may very well immediately tend to suspect that illegal drugs are being injected.The words 'drug' and 'syringe' are not far off being effective taboo words.Accordingly, 'marijuana' is not far off being a taboo word.</blockquote>

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