My mom grew up with a family of alcoholics. It seemed to run in her family. Her father was a heavy drinker (mostly whiskey) and would become violent when he was drunk. Her mother (my grandmother) also started drinking in those early years, and though it didn't affect her as much as her husband (they eventually divorced when Mom was still a child) she did pay a big price in her later years with various health issues.
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interesting that alcholol is not illegal, as are other drugs. please also note that drug abusers although illegal, are treated with our tax dollars and can collect disability Social Security and NOT work. And here i am still slugging away not seeing any retirment age in sight.
ReplyDeleteAlcohol is a drug, plentiful and inexpensive, the production of the “legal” drugs nicotine and alcohol are included in the most profitable manufacturing areas in the US.
ReplyDeleteWould it surprise anyone if thousands if not millions of dollars are used by the above “legal” drug manufacturers to suppress the competition of “illegal drugs” like Cannabis indica/Cannabis sativa.
Intoxicants are simply intoxicants, chemical tools used for medical and recreational use by humans having no evil or good only the resulting use and/or abuse that produces “good or evil."