Ok, so now your criteria is that a hard drug is one you can overdose accidentally on?

Well, accidental overdoses do happen on legal prescription medications, also on alcohol. Would you consider those "hard drugs"?

And, back to water... accidental overdoses have occurred from drinking too much water. Paradoxically, it tends to happen when people have heard that they should "drink lots of water" when they're exerting themselves and getting hot, but they don't realize that it's important to get electrolytes with your water, or drinking too much water will disturb the electrolyte balance in your blood and you could die.

So even by your "accidental overdose" criteria, water would be a "hard drug".

Also, if I can infer that you consider accidental overdoses to be undesirable, then you should be all for making drugs legal, as it's their illegal status that leads to more accidental overdoses, because (as I said in another comment in this thread), when drugs are illegal their users don't know the purity or dose they're getting, while when drugs are legal their known dosage and purity leads to fewer accidental overdoses.

> So even by your "accidental overdose" criteria, water would be a "hard drug".

smh...what a load of nonsense. you really put so much effort into misunderstanding what I said.

I specifically said "how easy is it too overdose accidentally" meaning depending on the DEGREE it could be labeled a hard drug or not. point is that from the very beginning I basically said that "I always thought: X, but don't quote me on that - i.e. enlighten me about what's the correct classification". It's as if you are just trying to actively misunderstand me so you can have someone to argue with...