Sorry, but this bolded part just is not true at all. Kava makes me feel euphoria just like alcohol, marijuana, and even oral opiates do. Sometimes if I drink enough I will stumble around just trying to stand up and walk. If that's not being "high" then I don't know what is. Kava can also cause me to be too "open" with others, or ramble needlessly as I sometimes would find myself cringing at my krunked emails or krunked yelp reviews. Not as bad as doing said things drunk of course, but I am certainly impaired to some degree when compared to my sober self. I am also sure that nobody here would advocate driving while krunk. Because if it wasn't mentally impairing that should be an okay thing to do. I've browsed this forum a lot and can't help but notice a lot of people in the kava community like to put kava on a untouchable pedastal and like to pretend that it's anything but a drug. Almost nobody is drinking kava for anything but the high, erm I mean its affect on the body and mind. Kava is certainly way safer than other drugs, and I know we want to create a favorable image of kava but denying that it's a high is being a little bit delusional.What I meant in the second paragraph was that kava does not affect our ability to think clearly and to be in control of our minds and bodies. This fact alone makes it different to what people tend to think about "legal highs". You are of course right when you talk about alcohol, etc. Some things are not commonly seen as "drugs" even though they are in fact not very different to hard drugs. Yes, the public perception of psychoactive substances is ignorant. However, it is what it is and if we do not want the narcophobia to affect the legal status of kava, we must insist that kava is not what people normally classify as "legal highs", IMO. It will affect your mind and body, but it will not make you high, , mentally impaired, addicted or experiencing weird and unpredictable things.