So true! I was looking forward to drinking for the longest time. And as soon as I tried it…it sucked so bad 😭
The flavor, the effect, the culture around it…ugh. Not for me, thanks.

Artist is 5-ish Art.

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    I read somewhere: Kids think that the adult drink is coffee, teenagers think that the adult drink is beer/wine, adults think that the adult drink is water.

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    I stopped drinking alcohol for around 8 months and I must say beer is the most horrible drink out there, I don’t see anything redeemable about it.

    But I like whiskey, aguardiente, vodka and especially, wine. Still not worth the cancer.

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    You have to find the right booze for you … actually you don’t have to, just drink whatever

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    The trick is to become addicted so that the bitter, solvent taste triggers the brain chemical anyway.

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    Honestly, that’s one of the better outcomes. Alcohol is pretty dangerous and I’ll applaud someone for abandoning it for any reason.

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    I know it wouldn’t go well with the existing culture around it but I am so incredibly for making it illegal for general grocery stores to sell any alcohol above 5%.

    Alcohol is a drug. And drugs shouldn’t be available to anyone as readily as bread. Make it only be available to specialist stores and increase taxes on alcohol to hell and back! (unless it’s pure ethanol… Please leave some slack for us hobbyist chemists and tinkerers ;-;)

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      I mean I get your point but also it just introduces an inconvenience for normal people, and I don’t think it really decreases alcohol abuse. People who are genuine addicts will just go where the alcohol is, might as well make it easy for them to pick up the groceries at the same time, otherwise they might just not do that.

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        The point of making it harder to acquire is to prevent people who aren’t addicted from becoming addicted in the first place. Once people reach addiction status they will usually find a way to get ahold of supply even if barriers are in place