Tim Cook <z99### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
> I'd like a bowl of drugs, some scrambled brains on drugs, and a glass of 
> orange juice, please.

> http://www.fda.gov/foi/warning_letters/s7188c.htm

  I have always wondered why English (at least American English) uses the
same word for medicine as for recreational drugs. Sure, there may be
*technical* reasons for using the same term for both, but it can certainly
become confusing, so wouldn't it be more *practical* to use completely
different names for the two things? Finnish uses two completely different
names and they are never mixed.

  Slogans like "say no to drugs" can be quite confusing when you realize
that most medicines are also "drugs". Are you going to say "no" to medicine
which will cure your illness?

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                                                          - Warp

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