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Your opinion on drugs and alcohol.

How ironic.  I just had a conversation with my sibling about substances.  I won't go into detail for his sake, but this is an interesting topic.  Let me start by saying that I do not have much life experience in this particular activity.  To be honest, drugs and alcohol is a really broad topic.  I mean, you could mean recreational drugs or prescription.  Rubbing alcohol or liquor.  Obviously, I think prescription drugs and rubbing alcohol are great advances in the field of medicine, exponentially greater than treating people through bloodletting and the like.

Recreational drugs and liquor though.  I think if anything is going to put you into an altered state, there are risks.  Whether it's worth the risks is really up to the person.  For me, I would probably pass on drugs of any kind.  Honestly, there is a lot of variety and different types of compounds that I just cannot predict.  Hallucinogens, uppers, downers.  I don't even know the jargon, and I won't even try to keep track.  As for alcohol, it's ethanol.  I loved chemistry, so I know the hydroxl group used in its formation.  Excuse the geek out, but I will drink.  There's probably a bit of exposure effect, but I think because alcohol is just a more visible activity, I accept it more.  They sell drinks at restaurants and in stores, but they don't have baggies of illegal drugs in "drugstores".  I guess, if there are major corporations developing, producing, and selling a product, it's not necessarily better for you than something that's homemade.  But if I'm trusting a drug user over a licensed product, there is something odd happening.

But really, that's just my opinion.  My opinion is based on very little experience in either category.