What are Drugs?

In regard to this subject, per Mr. Webster, a "drug is a substance used as a medicine or a narcotic substance", and "to take for narcotic effect".

What is a medicine for that matter?
a: A substance or preparation used in treating disease, b: something that affects well-being. Well that is easy to digest. Anything, I use to relieve any disease or anything that I do that changes my "Well-Being", becomes a medicine and therefore a drug.

Now that adds a whole new light to the idea of medical expenses. That "Food Stuff" comes to mind, if starvation is a "disease" and the lack of food has negatively affected the "well-being", and "food" being the proper preparation and treatment for both, by definition, it is medicine.

What is a narcotic?
A drug (as opium) that in moderate doses dulls the senses, relieves pain, and induces profound sleep but in excessive doses causes stupor, coma, or convolutions. Something that soothes, relieves, or lulls.

There are things that I have found and done in my life that have hade those exact effects that I do not want to be treated for, like laying in a grassy field and finding pictures in the clouds. What about roses, chocolate, sugar? They sooth, relieve, and lull; does that make them a drug? Think they don't? Sugar is one of the most addictive chemicals for Humans. See what happens in a family setting, if it cuts off all, and I mean all, added sugar from the house for a month.

Give your wife a dozen roses on a romantic date and see if that doesn't sooth and lull. Do you know someone, or maybe you are someone, that wakes up only after having had a doughnut and coffee first thing in the morning? We already know that Cannabis is on the list, but Why? Although I an sure that there are people that suffer allergic reaction to Cannabis, like some people do to peanuts, I have never seen a person go into convulsions or a coma after smoking pot, although I guess that I have to admit, some did seem to become very lasy at times. As far as I can tell, just about everything can be classified as a drug in one-way or an other.

I just do not think that "drugs" are the problem. I am not saying that some people do not have problems with drugs, no doubt some do, my question is why do so many people find "drugs" such a viable option to dealing with life's stresses?