Being a college student in the US alcohol is a huge trend that most everyone partakes of. I personally don't enjoy being piss drunk, however a few beers, good wine, or perhaps some whiskey or vodka does make my tastebuds sing!

I simply don't understand though how such a possibly damaging substance is legal and yet things like cannabis and mushies are illegal

Alcohol is an illusionary poison. It's not a medicine, it cures nothing and teaches nothing. It lowers inhibitions and can allow a shy person to talk under its influence, but its effects are never permanent. They're illusionary. It's a prison. It shows you something you want and then tells you you can only ever have it inside the cell. There's no lock on the door, one isn't needed. You have to go back to get the same effects, and you have to take more and more and it's addictive so eventually you'll never leave the cell. It also messes up your neurotransmitter balance, making you depressed if you continue drinking. It's a solvent your brain and your mind slowly dissolves in... It cannot heal, only make you more sick.


That's how I view alcohol It's only my view, it's not my place to judge anyone else. We all have our own paths and we're all in different places. I'm at a place where I take nothing recreationally, everything I take has a function (although I could probably do without caffeine and nicotine... no lasting benefits from them either!)

Alcohol kills brain cells, drowns your brain, damages your throat, liver...and makes you do some really stupid things. It also makes you seem to age quicker. Alcohol is really bad for you in my opinion.

Haha I have always felt the same way bodhisativa. Ever since i started smoking weed ive gotten drunk a couple of times for 4-5 years probaby. I cannot stand alchohol, neither do i like any of the beverages nor do i like the effects of being drunk. I stopped going to discoes simply because i was not having a good time. Everyone was getting dead drunk and i was sittin there on the couch dead baked laughing at my friends( which in a way was fun, but you know what i mean). The first time i went to a techno party and took X, everything changed. I was wondering why do people drink when they can get so much more ? But in the end of the day i feel like i need to respect other's tastes. Just like how i love the feeling of mary passing in my lungs , maybe people feel the same way for alchohol. Or maybe people are afraid to try new things simply because society has told them it is dangerous.... but litte do they know about alchohol.

I wish everyone had this same approach to life. This is exactly how I feel, as explained (or maybe not) in my favourite mantra;

"Trees in the forest."

I do enjoy a nice glass of wine with dinner and sometimes a few beers with friends on the weekend. Drinking is so ingrained in our society, it can sometimes be hard to get away from it. I prefer smoking MJ so much more than drinking, as I have a higher appreciation for life and it opens my mind rather than dulling it.

Also, moderation is key when it comes to the sauce...

Well I do love the taste of good whisky, rum, or brandy but I hardly ever drink too much. I have a whisky on the rocks or a mojito when im feeling down then ill go out in town and just walk around meeting people. The last time I drank too much was years ago and that's because I was extremely upset so I put a whole bottle of wild turkey down and blacked out. That was a bad night and I drink beer mostly now and that's after work with friends we play pool or darts at the bar its fun and I never get headaches because I only have two or so. I definitely prefer weed as a drug though its fun to go socialize with people and act normal for a change I mean I can't go taking bong tokes in public so I just drink instead,

I like that.

Give me a good honest drug, like crack or heroin. That in itself sounds wrong, but I do find them more honest. A junkie will lie, cheat, steal for his fix. You know it, he knows it. The user lies, the drug doesn't.

Alcohol is far more cunning - it's a good time, it's relaxing. Alcoholics just make it look bad.

Personally I don't trust alcohol, therefore I don't trust anyone who's under the influence. I can't find a way to frame that positively for myself. At the same time, to each their own. I recommend taking a year off drinking (see how well your little hitchhiker agrees with that one ), and going out sober, but particularly to bars and clubs, where you can interact with the spirit of the substance objectively. It's quite an eye-opener.

From two stints in rehab it was always the same people who I felt the most for - the long term drinkers, and the long-term benzo abusers. Watching their process, and contemplating the web that society has waiting for them back outside, made me feel blessed to rather have an illegal drug problem.

This could be said for all drugs,



Again, the same could be said for a sober person trying to interact with coke/crack/smackheads. Coke and crackheads are particularly boring to hang with. They never shut up!!!

@hug46 - exactly my point.

Crack abusers, heroin abusers, alcoholics. Why does alcohol get a separate category?

What I'm trying to say is that alcohol has a little 'socially acceptable' guise it's allowed to wear, when it belongs with the hard hitters

(I don't literally mean give me hard drugs over booze, I simply mean they are honest. Alcohol is no less a rubbish drug than the rest)

Edit: I can kinda see how that first line was pretty misleading in retrospect