recreational drug

recreational drug
rec·re·a·tion·al drug .rek-rē-'ā-sh(ə-)nəl- n a drug (as cocaine, marijuana, or methamphetamine) used without medical justification for its psychoactive effects often in the belief that occasional use of such a substance is not habit-forming or addictive

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a legal or illegal psychoactive substance that is used nonmedically for the satisfaction to be derived from it.

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