100%. I’m from the UK and the drinking culture here is ridiculous. People don’t just drink, they get wasted. My best friend died from alcohol abuse at 34.
There are people at my company who are very obviously alcoholics and spend the workday hungover or still drunk a lot of the time stinking of booze and that’s totally fine apparently. But if I smoked weed at the weekend like I used to and came into work totally sober I’d test positive, get fired immediately, completely fuck my career prospects and very likely get a visit from the police trying to bust me. It is bullshit.
Laughs in alcohol at 18, legally
I’d rather be in a community with chronic weed smokers than alcoholics. A severe weed habit has it’s faults, but pales in comparison to alcoholism.
100%. I’m from the UK and the drinking culture here is ridiculous. People don’t just drink, they get wasted. My best friend died from alcohol abuse at 34.
There are people at my company who are very obviously alcoholics and spend the workday hungover or still drunk a lot of the time stinking of booze and that’s totally fine apparently. But if I smoked weed at the weekend like I used to and came into work totally sober I’d test positive, get fired immediately, completely fuck my career prospects and very likely get a visit from the police trying to bust me. It is bullshit.
Yeah, but doesn’t that mean you were drinking hard cider from a plastic bottle at age 12, in a forest, like some kind of demented hobbit?
EDIT: to be fair, that is actually pretty badass
That’s … An interesting conclusion
It’s just basic math. If some 15-year-olds start drinking here, some 12-year-olds are going to start drinking on your side of the pond.