Uh, you are patronizing me. You know very well the effects.
As I said, some dive in, others it takes a while, maybe I should have said, other no effect. Pot never effected me, so I didn't stick to it, however drinking did.
I am a social drinker (and a rare one at that, these days) and it has nothing whatsoever to do with my ability to control myself. If I want a drink, I have one, but I quite rarely want a drink. To the contrary, I feel that I don't drink anywhere near enough because moderate drinking is good for your health. I actually try to tell myself to drink a glass of wine a day, but I hardly ever do.
There is nothing whatsoever to suggest to me that I could ever 'progress' to alcoholism. So far as I can tell, it's simply not in my nature. I assume with confidence that I'm not unique in that regard.
Your statement is simply false as an absolute statement (that drinking alcohol is inherently a prelude to alcoholism, absent willful self-control).
As I said, some dive in, others it takes a while, maybe I should have said, other no effect.
I am not patronizing you. Yes, you should have said "others, no effect", and if you were being perfectly honest you would have said "for the vast majority, no effect". I realize that there are alcoholics, and that some people are prone to alcoholism with devastating results but you're not going to convince anyone by characterizing it in terms they already know are objectively indefensible.