as an alcoholic myself (10 years sober) if you can have a few drinks once and awhile and it doesn’t affect your life in any way whats so ever then power to you. If it’s fun for you every now again but not on the regular, then again, power to you.

For people like me we can’t do that. we don’t know where the stop button is and in many cases don’t care to find it. for otherx saying “drinking is bad full stop it has health issues even if you have one drink every month” oh let the baby have their bottles and ignore them. if you can drink and it’s not destroying anything and you can still function then have at it.

I never liked beer. It just tastes like shit to me. I’m also not a fan of dry wine, so I don’t usually go for that. I do like mixed drinks.

I very rarely drink. My wife’s older brother was killed by a drunk driver. I met her after that, but I got to see the impact it had on their lives. So, if I’m driving I won’t touch any alcohol.

When my kids were young, and I was still in the on call rotation at work, I was always either driving the kids around or I was on call, so I couldn’t drink.

Now the kids are grown, and I don’t take call anymore, but it just never occurs to me. Very rarely, my wife and I will go to a restaurant within walking distance of our house. If we go there, I’ll have a couple long island iced teas. To give you an idea of the frequency, we’ve gone there three times in the last seven years. We might also open a bottle of wine at holidays.

I never was part of the drinking culture. My wife and I started dating when we were in high school. We’ve never been the sort to go to a bar or a nightclub.

When my kids were young and in karate, we would go to parties with the other karate parents. My wife and I were shocked by the dads who would get absolutely plastered at these parties. When we asked, they said they drink like that every week.

Its poison, slow and social poisoning marketed and sold as a product to consume

I think regular drinking is not very healthy and hits the body hard. There is no harm in occasionally getting drunk though. It’s good for the soul.

I enjoy good beer. I have one almost every day - I don’t believe it’s the effect alcohol has on my brain, but the taste. I found a non-alcoholic beer that I liked and drank it for months. Then the store ran out so I got some of my old favourites as a treat and from the very first sip it was just - better. So I’m back to drinking alcohol - one beer a day and a small Jägermeister once or twice a month.

I understand that it’s poison, but I feel like unless you’re living a totally subsistence lifestyle in the middle of nowhere then everything you do is a potential poison to some extent and our bodies will deal with it or not - we’re all playing Russian Roulette with everything we ingest, breath and touch.

I think its too expensive and it smells bad

It depends on how it affects you. What you described matches more what I get from coffee (I don’t drink coffee). I drink fairly regularly I guess. It gives a social boost, to the point of a semi-social sober person, in exchange for some clumsiness. Hangovers are rare and I’ve never forgotten something because of alcohol, so it feels more like a short-term enhancement. Obviously it’s bad long-term but, as with everything, if you don’t hurt anyone, you do you.

I really enjoyed the drinking and weed combo (getting wasted all the time and skipping most of the hang over with weed felt like a life hack), thought i could do it forever - but then it just felt normal at some point. In the end alcohol gave me gout attacks and weed gave me random anxiety attacks.

I miss them like toxic lovers, but i know they’re shit and totally not worth it. Learning how to “be sober” was really hard as a result of doing it for so long.

Honestly, I don’t drink much anymore. I drank a lot as a student and I was youthful enough not to feel too many after effects.

But now… maybe once or twice a month tops. I’m mostly there for the taste now. I brew beer. I drink so little of it I end up giving away most of my bottles, or maybe sharing one with several friends on occasion. I love a good whiskey, but I’d rather buy an expensive bottle and let it last several years than powering through it or getting fucked up with cheap booze.

Truth is, I literally can’t stomach heavy drinking anymore. So now I more often than not stop when sufficiently buzzed or when my taste buds give up.

3 years sober this august. Eventually the amount of drinking you need to do increases to an unbearable degree for the same amount of “fun”.

Life is much better now. But being an addict sucks, don’t go there.

I stopped about 5 years ago. I have depressive tendencies and drinking heightens the negative emotions much more than the positive ones (for me, at least). It wouldn’t take much to send me spiralling for the night.

Also, to your point - I couldn’t do math well for like a week after drinking, and I need to for my work.

If you want to do drugs do them sparingly and if there are any you can’t do then sparingly don’t do those ones at all.

Opinions? You do you. No amount of alcohol is apparently “safe” in terms of health effects, according to newer research. For a ton of people that doesn’t matter that much.

I think everyone is going to have their own opinion on this. Obviously it’s not great for health. Just like any substance, it feels good for some… Not so much for others. Some people get dependent, others not. I think it’s a very personal thing. If you can have a few drinks here and there without it causing problems… More power to you! If it becomes how you function or a daily habit, take a fucking break man. Or stop entirely.

This message was written after drinking a couple drinks.

Bitter. Too bitter for my liking.

Plus, I’m quite happy with having full mental faculties. Never understood why people would enjoy diminishing it.