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Actually that definition/explanation depends on the source material.

Some, as in Websters, restrict the definition to that of not being 'drunk'.
This is the case both currently and in their 1966 edition 'International Unabridged' (a copy of which I keep on my bookshelf).

However, the American Heritage dictionary specifically makes reference to both alcohol and drugs.

Random House Unabridged, 1966 (also kept with great fondness close by) makes direct reference to sober as 'not being drunk or intoxicated' and then defines 'intoxicated' as diminished control from us of 'alcoholic liquor, drugs, or other substances'

Given that the etymology of 'sober' is 'sobrius', it should be fair to say that historically speaking, the use definition was in fact specific to 'alcohol'.

But, as I've pointed out, common grammatical (and use) reference for the last 40 some odd years at least, has been specific to both drugs and alcohol...

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Buzzby

There's a line from an old Jefferson Airplane song, "D.C.B.A. 25", that reads "Too many days I've left unstoned". Perhaps that should become a part of our vocabulary.

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