Not a bp, but when depressed I'd smoke a joint with a friend to fall asleep easily or just to ease the tension of the hollow feeling.

Today I mostly drink wine and rarely sip some beer.
I get similar feeling from wine and weed in the sense of easing up and I like it.
Wine makes the depression lighter.

Honestly I don't think I drink when I'm elevated or hypo-manic, but I do smoke and when I do I think I'm bursting even more until I feel like I'm gonna explode out of my body if I won't keep on going with whatever it is that's going (lol).

Frankly, I just don't drink enough to point a significant affect of drinking on me or vice-versa.