Tag: Alcohol Culture
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Cannabis Culture V Alcohol Culture
All self-medication is not created equal. Alcohol culture and cannabis culture come from two distinctly different places. Their hold on Americans are both distinctly different. One has always been incredibly unhealthy (fun as hell — make no mistake — but damned unhealthy). The other is cannabis culture. Both inspired prohibition but cannabis’ prohibition endured long…
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Alcohol On Airplanes Was NEVER A Good Idea Actually; Now, Cannabis, On The Other Hand…
On May 29, American Airlines joined Southwest Airlines in suspending alcohol sales on their aircraft. Southwest did it because its passengers were becoming increasingly abusive over mask issues and when those abusive passengers started drinking… . We live in alcohol culture’s thrall the same way we used to live in Big Tobacco’s thrall. It wasn’t…
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Dear American News Media — The Way You Deal With A LIAR Is The Same Way You Deal With A DRUNK — You REFUSE To Argue With Em…
I stopped drinking alcohol about two years ago. I didn’t have to but the mood stabilizer I’m on gives alcohol a terrible aftertaste. It was an unexpected side effect — and, frankly, I’m grateful for it. When I say I didn’t “have to” stop drinking, what I mean is, I didn’t stop because I perceived…
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Since I Stopped Drinking Alcohol, I’ve Come To See Clearly — America Has A Problem With Alcohol
Want to know if Americans drink too much alcohol? Quit drinking for a day. Better yet a week — or a month. Better yet, quit drinking entirely. I wasn’t forced to quit drinking by the mood stabilizer that saved my life. Alcohol can increase the intensity of any side effects the lamictil causes but, by…
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More Notes From A Former Drinker — Drinking Culture Wouldn’t Be Half So Stupid If People Learned “How To Drink”
Want to feel like a social leper? Decline an offer of alcohol from your host — whose whole experience of you is as a drinker. I might as well have said I’d turned cannibal and wanted to eat him. “You’re not drinking?” “No. Had to stop, remember — my mood stabilizer makes alcohol taste like…
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Drinking Culture Vs Cannabis Culture: We’ve Got It COMPLETELY Upside Down…
Long story short: A few days before Christmas 2016, I not only ‘flirted with suicide’, I stared long and hard into its eyes. I was lucky — and walked away alive. The medication that helped me walk away alive – Lamotrigine – is mainly used as an anti-seizure med for epilepsy sufferers; anecdotal observations suggested…