True enough but we still had Founding Fathers and others in the early history of our country that went well beyond the apostle Paul’s recommendation to add a little wine to the water for health’s sake. In previous posts, some noted high functioning drug users like Keith Richards, Hunter Thompson, and Edgar Allen Poe. However, the effects of marijuana and cocaine are quite different from those of alcohol. You can thus have more high functioning alcoholics than high functioning drug users.
In a letter (often dated around the 1770s), Franklin wrote: “Behold the rain which descends from heaven upon our vineyards; there it enters the roots of the vines, to be changed into wine; a constant proof that God loves us, and loves to see us happy”.