Drinking

I drink socially, and not that often either. I like when I get drunk because I have a much better time. I laugh at everything even more than normal. And it makes me for a few hours, forget all the bullshit I deal with in my life.

Lucky for me, I don't get hangovers. XD

I can't drink anymore. It screwed up my liver and tore up my esophagus. Ahhh, thanks a lot, freshman year of high school. >:(

But every now and then, I can enjoy a few glasses of wine or some beer. But even then, I gotta be careful.

I don't drink. I've never tried alcohol (which is mostly due to the fact that I'm 19, not legal yet). I might try some when I'm 21, just to see, but I don't think I'll drink often, if at all. I don't like being around people who have been drinking though, it makes them stupid and it's slightly embarassing to me. Idk. It just has never appealed to me. I kinda want to try some of the fruity cocktails and whatnot, and wine, but that's about it.

I drink. I'm legal to drink. I didn't drink much when I wasn't legal. I've been drunk, like, six times in my life and only once since I turned 21.

I usually just have a glass of wine with dinner or something like that. I do like to party and get incredibly pissed, but it just doesn't happen that often. The last time it did I had my first ever hangover. 13 shooters of Saki. I don't recommend that.

I have had a fair amount of alcohol before but I do not plan on having any more in recreational circumstances. It was a mistake for me to be drinking underage (or at all) and I got no real pleasure out of it.

I have no like for the taste of alcohol so it is not difficult for me to give up. It is difficult for me to see the utter folly of people who abuse the drug.

Ultimately, I think that drinking should be illegal. Perhaps it cannot be today, but if we begin to restrict the advertising rights of alcohol companies like we have done with tobacco companies, we may eventually eradicate it from society. Drinking is an unnecessary evil in society and any claimed health benefits from alcohol are
a) not related by causality or
b) available from safer foods.

The number of health complications and deaths caused by alcohol carry immense costs.

The last few times I've had alcohol, I've been horribly sick. I remember drinking it and getting tipsy and being like 'woohoo i love this' but nowadays, it just makes me a horrible mess. I like it now and again though, but long gone are the days of going to the local park and whatnot.

kizzman:

Ultimately, I think that drinking should be illegal.

I don't understand why you're so quick to punish those who don't abuse a drug over the minority who do.

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I drink.
I never drink and drive.
I've been drunk less than ten times in my life.
Generally I just have a glass of wine with dinner or something.

dru's konstantine.:

I don't understand why you're so quick to punish those who don't abuse a drug over the minority who do.

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I drink.
I never drink and drive.
I've been drunk less than ten times in my life.
Generally I just have a glass of wine with dinner or something.

I apologize. I've been feeling irritable lately.

kizzman:

I have had a fair amount of alcohol before but I do not plan on having any more in recreational circumstances. It was a mistake for me to be drinking underage (or at all) and I got no real pleasure out of it.

I have no like for the taste of alcohol so it is not difficult for me to give up. It is difficult for me to see the utter folly of people who abuse the drug.

Ultimately, I think that drinking should be illegal. Perhaps it cannot be today, but if we begin to restrict the advertising rights of alcohol companies like we have done with tobacco companies, we may eventually eradicate it from society. Drinking is an unnecessary evil in society and any claimed health benefits from alcohol are
a) not related by causality or
b) available from safer foods.

The number of health complications and deaths caused by alcohol carry immense costs.

Alcohol has too many cultural valences to ever become illegal in Europe, especially not at the suggestion of an American. It'd be like trying to make cheese or pasta illegal. I don't drink on principle, but I still know that my grandmother's been making her own wine ever since she had her own house and her own grapevines and her parents and grandparents before her all did it too and there's little that could stop it.

Mr W. H.:

Alcohol has too many cultural valences to ever become illegal in Europe, especially not at the suggestion of an American. It'd be like trying to make cheese or pasta illegal. I don't drink on principle, but I still know that my grandmother's been making her own wine ever since she had her own house and her own grapevines and her parents and grandparents before her all did it too and there's little that could stop it.

All drug use is "cultural." The drug can be made illegal if we simply remove it from the perpetuation of generation to generation.

kizzman:

All drug use is "cultural." The drug can be made illegal if we simply remove it from the perpetuation of generation to generation.

Not really. There's no country in the world where it's traditional for people to make their own cocaine or where 90% of the adult population smokes. There are around 50 alcoholic drinks which have protected geographic status in the EU and two wine-making regions in France are UNESCO heritage sights and for many countries alcoholic drinks are a matter of national identity - it'd be easier to make haggis and kilts illegal in Scotland than to make whiskey.

kizzman:

All drug use is "cultural." The drug can be made illegal if we simply remove it from the perpetuation of generation to generation.

Alcohol has been a part of European culture certainly for the past 1,000 years (if not longer) and doubtless for even longer than that in other parts of the world. I think it'd take a really long time to reverse that, even if reversing it would be a good thing, which it's not. People who can handle alcohol shouldn't have to give it up for the sake of people who can't handle it (or don't want to, whichever).

I think that calling drinking "drug use" is a bit of a stretch. Technically it's correct, but it's not correct in the modern sense of what we consider drug use to be.

Matt Smith:

Alcohol has been a part of European culture certainly for the past 1,000 years (if not longer) and doubtless for even longer than that in other parts of the world. I think it'd take a really long time to reverse that, even if reversing it would be a good thing, which it's not. People who can handle alcohol shouldn't have to give it up for the sake of people who can't handle it (or don't want to, whichever).

The Ancient Greeks drank already drank wine so it's been a part of European culture for over four millennia. It wasn't just a little known phenomenon either, it's there in the main products of Ancient Greek culture - the Homeric epics make numerous references to wine and the frame story of the Platonic dialogue Symposium is a drinking party (to say nothing of the fact that Socrates died poisoned with a cup of wine).

Drinking water used to mean drinking heavily for several days. But now the word refers to the large consumption of alcohol over a short period. Today's commonly accepted definition of binge drinking in the United States the consumption of five or more drinks in a row for men or four or more drinks in a row for women.

I usually just drink socially.... almost every weekend? idk it's not a big deal for me and my friends

druscilla ryden.:

I think that calling drinking "drug use" is a bit of a stretch. Technically it's correct, but it's not correct in the modern sense of what we consider drug use to be.

I disagree. I'd consider drinking to be "drug use" since alcohol is technically a drug as it alters your state of consciousness. It may be legal and socially acceptable, but it's technically still drug use. Plus, alcohol can cause people to act in a more outlandish and/or dangerous behavior than a lot of other drugs do.

My opinion on drinking is that it's overrated. I'm not against it, I just don't really enjoy it anymore. It just leaves my body feeling completely drained, and I usually don't have a good time while I'm drunk in the first place... but that's just me.

LeanneSTC:

I disagree. I'd consider drinking to be "drug use" since alcohol is technically a drug as it alters your state of consciousness. It may be legal and socially acceptable, but it's technically still drug use. Plus, alcohol can cause people to act in a more outlandish and/or dangerous behavior than a lot of other drugs do.

My opinion on drinking is that it's overrated. I'm not against it, I just don't really enjoy it anymore. It just leaves my body feeling completely drained, and I usually don't have a good time while I'm drunk in the first place... but that's just me.

I don't think she was saying alcohol isn't a drug. I'm pretty sure she was implying that one usually doesn't describe drinking alcohol as 'drug use', and that 'drug use' has different connotations even though alcohol is a drug.

^ Plus if you go by that thinking, then wouldn't that make drinking coffee 'drug use' as well?

^ And even in 'drug' standards... alcohol is pretty harmless in the altering of your state of consciousness. If you drink a little or enough, your personality gets a little bigger, sure, but it's not like you start having hallucinations and things like that - it's not like you drink to have a hallucinogenic experience, which you do with a lot of drugs. That's what I would consider an altered consciousness.

Of course if you drink way too much then you forget what you've done, you can pass out, and there are how ever many other health risks, but in the casual drinking sense and not the binge, alcohol isn't that bad. You can't casually take most other drugs in the same way (except weed, probably, but I can't talk from experience on that.)