I gave up alcohol about 15 years ago.
I don’t miss it, but to each his own.
I have noticed I no longer enjoy being around drunk people.
Was a teetotaler for 35 years.
Was.
Scripture frequently uses “wine” as a positive analogy for reasons.
I drank my share when I was young. Gave it up when I married a teetotaling wife - she was far more valuable to me than the booze. Now I take some meds that do not mix well with alcohol so I wouldn’t start again even if I wanted to.
I found out that I enjoy not puking on my feet when I get up in the morning.
They got MADD and Left?
This really is an interesting article. The author makes the point several times that marijuana is far more dangerous than alcohol. So why is pot not socially acceptable? Yet alcohol is. The answer to that is the marketing and the advertising.
A multibillion dollar industry.
didn’t you read the papers It made organized crime rich, corrupted police departments so they woke up and changed the law. Now we are doing the same with drugs.
I can’t recall anyone every being criticized for not drinking.
Didn’t read the piece, but want to chime in and remind everyone that our belove PDT is a tee-totaler. I think because his older brother basically died of drinking.
Not drinking is always OK.
And I can drink with the very best of ‘em.
Last drink was Feb. 17, 1991. Don’t miss it 99% of the time but knows what will happen when the 1% creeps up.
I don’t drink anymore…but I don’t drink any LESS either !
The anti alcohol movement is alive and well in Prohibition era state regulations and alcohol taxes. It took 160 years for Minnesota to allow Sunday liquor sales and Minnesota is now the only state with 3.2 beer, a Prohibition anachronism. Alcohol taxes are easy to pass as drinking is still considered a vice to be controlled. Ironically states that have since the end of Prohibition have tried to control drinking are now quickly embracing legalizing marijuana.
The fact that Trump doesn't drink and speaks against it = Total news blackout on alcohol temperance.
I never understand the haranguers. Why do you care who does or doesn’t drink. I know people who drink. I know people who don’t. Your life, enjoy as you choose.
We’re coming, we’re coming, our brave little band,
On the right side of temperance we do take our stand,
We don’t use tobacco because we do think
that people who use it are likely to drink!
Away, away with rum, by gum, rum, by gum, rum, by gum,
Away, away with rum, by gum,
the song of the temperance union!
Noah’s Mill bourbon is excellent. IW Harper 15 is very good as well. Exceedingly smooth.
Saw a report this past week: Millennial love booze. It’s one of their biggest expenses.