[NoPie]

It just shows that precise definitions are not that important in medical science.

We all know what is a drug. And there are border cases where our ideas of drug and food overlap. It is only a small issue for regulators to decide what regulations to apply. But for doctors it is not a problem.

Saline infusion technically is not an active drug either. And yet it can be regulated as one because obviously quality standards are important for infusions.

[hulitu]

> We all know what is a drug.

"When Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart was asked to describe his test for obscenity in 1964, he responded: "I know it when I see it." But do we? " from https://history.wustl.edu/i-know-it-when-i-see-it-history-ob...

[giraffe_lady]

Something I've noticed when reading about people in history or even more modern indigenous people is that the clear distinction between "food" and "medicine" seems very new and peculiar to our time & culture. It's obviously a useful differentiation a lot of the time, but not always and at least sometimes it seems useful to not apply it.

[hooverd]

Ontologies and their consequences.

[patmorgan23]

this definitions precision is not important in medical science. There are definitely lots of other times where precision is important.

[LocalH]

> We all know what is a drug.

Kindly expand on this thought please. I heavily disagree with your assertion.