> our Puritan values run deep.
Not at all. It's expensive and very harmful. Why would I drink alcohol when I can enjoy a meal out with friends without drinking at all?
Not at all. It's expensive and very harmful. Why would I drink alcohol when I can enjoy a meal out with friends without drinking at all?
“It’s cheap, and we all live to be 80 anyways. Why wouldn’t I casually drink alcohol while I enjoy a meal out with friends?”
2. If you have a drink every night out with friends you build a tolerance to it, and you put stress on your body for no gain.
3. Dehydration, sleepiness, and worse sleep and cost are big downsides
4. You can have better, cheaper effects with edible weed.
https://www.sensesofcinema.com/2009/great-directors/aki-kaur...
New Zealand was culturally very different, where excessive drinking was strongly encouraged in the social groups I saw in my early 20s, and across a variety of social groups as I got older.