Drugs are baaaaad, ummm-kaaay?

There's been a lot of talk lately in the newspapers I read about how evil drinking is, specifically those of us who go out and get *gasp* drunk. This is down mainly to the fact that the UK is to introduce 24hour licensing laws and the media's perceived notion that bedlam is about to be introduced as a consequence. I'm generally in favour of the opening up of licensing laws but that's a different conversation. I'm more interested right now in the demonising of drinking in general.

I was delighted therefore to read yesterday a great article espousing the positive aspects of drinking, particularly the ending quote:

Drunkenness is an attribute of those who do not appreciate what they are consuming, not of those who do.

Now, I appreciate beer. I live in Germany and it has thought me well. The only thing I can drink now when I go home is Guinness because the beers there are utter sewerage. Bud is the biggest selling beer for the love of the care bears.

BUT, while I generally agree with the above quote it got me thinking, and you know what: I like to get drunk. It's fun. I forget about my troubles a bit, I think I love everyone more and by some quirk of physics I can play kicker/foosball/whatever-you-call-it much much better.

Now I'm not condoning the kind of twits derided in detail by The Streets. In fact the opening up of said laws might be beneficial in that those people might drink so much they'll be too drunk to start fights because you glanced for a microsecond at their girlfriend, and even more benefically to society they might pass out and choke on their own vomit. Ahhh utopia. We can only dream.

And while I'm at it, I smoke the eveeeeeiiiilllll weed too world. There you go.

"[...] I'm a criminal,
In the eyes of society I need to be in jail,
For the choice of herbs I inhale."

Yep, and you know what, that's even more fun most of the time. Have you ever watched Zoolander after a smoke? Citizen Kane doesn't touch it.

So, I was delighted to read today it can even help me loose weight. Which is handy because I've grown a tyre around my waist lately because of the munchies. Got to get me some of that Pakastani herb.