I just hate what alcohol does to otherwise wonderful people.
It’s no different from heroin and other illegal drugs except the government and a bunch of other unscrupulous asses make a fortune off of it.
I mean really...aside from the cash it takes in why would it be legal? It kills people by the masses, causes accidents - sometimes deadly, destroys your brain and innards, causes intense physical and mental dependency, kills the unborn, causes birth defects, and makes you have sex with people you’d otherwise avoid. They don’t call em beer goggles for nothing [emoji6]
My dad was a truly kind, loving, good hearted man. 40 years of drinking destroyed him. He drank the mortgage money, the grocery money, the Christmas money. He walked away from his kids because he knew it was killing us but he was physically unable to stop. He figured we were better off w/out the toxicity in our lives. Then hated himself for it for the next 20 years. Thankfully his resolve wasn’t that strong and we weren’t apart for long.
No thanks. I’ll smoke my bowls and relax. **** drinking and having “fun”. If I run out I’m a little bummed but I don’t get the shakes or have random seizures.
I pray my children don’t find the love for booze. I tell them about my dad and I hope some of it sinks in.