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by notpushkin 311 days ago
Technically, nicotine can be classified as a stimulant: https://web.archive.org/web/20250712041104/https://psychonau...
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eru 311 days ago
It's not a straight-up stimulant. It's complicated.
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skeezyboy 311 days ago
cognitive stimulant definitely
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eru 310 days ago
There are some technical definition of what makes a stimulant a stimulant. It doesn't just have to have a vague stimulating effect.

It's definitely a stimulant in colloquial English, just not in pharmacology.

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