“You can make your own alcoholic drinks too, but it’s a royal pain to do.”
Fermenting different things to create alcoholic beverages has been going on a very long time. Some of the most basic are primitive tribes fermenting fruit. From a long term cultural perspective, is been the Muslims who have traditionally grown dope and westerners (Christians) who perfected alcohol production.
From an American perspective, our own founders grew it and there is evidence that they smoked it as well.