It is up for you to guess whether it was strong drink or not. All we know from the text was that it was called good (which is not surprising about what Jesus does).
Please accept my continued good wishes for your recovery.
Of all the arguments made by religious teetotalers, this is probably the silliest. The very idea that there existed some kind of distinction between fermented (strong drink) and unfermente drink has no historical basis at all.
Further, do you REALLY think that the city of Denver cares much about what glorifies Jesus Christ, even if your thing about "strong drink" were true? Civil law is to refrain and restrain wickedness, not to create a pure society. Divorce was permitted under the Mosaic code, yet remains one of the most destructive elements of any society.
Unbelievers are really not very impressed with our teetotalling morality, any more than they are impressed with the moral scruples of a Hindu vegan who won't eat meat because it might be Uncle Henry.
Just an aside. During a time when our society was WAY WAY WAY more influenced by the gospel (the era immediately after the Great Awakening) under the preaching of George Whitfield, Johathan Edwards, Frelinhuysen, Samuel Davies, Shubal Stearns, and Deveraux Jarrett, it was common for preachers to BE PAID IN CORN WHISKEY. These men who shook a continent for God would have been amused a the idea that someone thought alcohol inherently sinful.
Smoking pot is a different kettle of fish, but alot of the principles are the same.