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I totally agree with you, alcohol is no different than other medications - people do react to them differently, and they do build up a tolerance after a while also. If you have ever taken codeine for pain the first few times knock you on your butt, but after a while they hardly even effect you. A guy that has been a heavy drinker his whole life isn't impaired after 3 beers like a teenager is, but they get treated the same in a courtroom. I am against drunk drivers, but I am also against seeing a fat guy with a whopper in one hand and a chocolate shake in the other cruising down the road at 80. I think he is far more deadly sucking the special sauce off of his shirt than the guy that just had a couple while he shot a game of pool at the bar.

I totally agree with you, alcohol is no different than other medications - people do react to them differently, and they do build up a tolerance after a while also.

In my ultra-stupid younger years, I got pulled over and hauled downtown. Deservedly so. I'd probably had a case of beer that day and was flat out drunk. For some bizarre reason, however, breathalyzers don't work on me like they do on most. I registered .02. Not .20. .02 after drinking all day. The policeman who stopped me was furious and wanted to hold me anyway but the shift captain refused. That was the last time I drank and drove, but after that I started checking myself whenever I was in a bar that had a breathalyzer machine. No matter how much I'd had, no matter how sloppy drunk I was, I never tested higher than .021.

I don't drink at all anymore. (I don't think taking a drink is a sin per se, but I do believe drinking can hurt my witness as a Christian, so I've stopped.) I also have zero tolerance for drinking and driving. I'll turn a friend in. I'd turn a relative in. If I see you drinking and driving, I'll turn you in. If someone sees me doing it, I sure hope they do the same. Utter common sense says alcohol and public roads don't mix, period. I think you have the right to drink if you choose, but when you hit the roads where my children and grandchildren and wife may be, that's a privilege, not a right.