“Personally, I’m not for telling anybody what to ingest.”
Well, I am.
I first of all support anti-drunkenness laws. One can drink without getting drunk. I don’t mind others drinking alcohol if they don’t get drunk. As for caffeine and tobacco, they do not promote anti-social behavior. Long human history has shown that.
But if you are drunk; or stoned on pot; or meth; or LSD; or cocaine; or whatever -
your inhibitions are lowered. you get psychotic. you get paranoid. you can’t properly make decisions. you tend to neglect vulnerable people in your care. you more often abuse vulnerable people in your care. you are more dangerous to people who have absolutely nothing to do with you. you can’t control your bodily functions as well. you can’t work to your best if at all. you can overdose. you can influence others to join you in your debauchery, particularly young people who may look up to you. you can’t help in an emergency. sometimes you are the emergency. you are more likely to commit every crime there is, from vandalism to murder. you are also a much easier mark for a criminal. most of the nutballs wandering our streets are there because either they abused drugs, or their caretakers did. They can’t string together a coherent sentence.
And none of this happens on your own private island. We live in a society, not separate cages.
Public drunkeness is the crime, not the drink.
Personally, if a guy wants to get drunk/stoned/wasted in his own home, without externalizing the impacts to the rest of us, FINE.
As for “anti social behavior”, I haven’t known many violent weed users. Just the opposite.
The WO(S) is a complete failure. I used to support it, but I’ve grown up. Imprisonment is up, and drug use is unabated. Meanwhile, as with Prohibition, we’ve created the criminal element out of whole cloth.
How positively benevolent of you n00b
IIRC, Jesus transformed 12 jugs of water into wine at Canaan. Let's assume each earthen jug held 10 gallons...so now we have 120 gallons or 13.3 firkins of wine. And it was the good stuff, not Two Buck Chuck.
So with our 13.3 firkins we have 151 bottles of wine (using the contemporary measure of 750 ml/bottle).
It's pretty clear (God - I'm being sarcastic...) that Jesus, at his mother's behest, was intent on getting many people to partake in debauchery, vandalism, criminal nutballs wandering our streets, and others who cannot string together a coherent sentence.