text: Alcohol is often portrayed as a harmless high. It is not.
  
  Pot heads tell us that pot is even less harmful than alcohol, and that driving while stoned is No Problem. Alcoholics and smart phone dependent folks try to peddle us the same myth about texting or drinking and driving.
  
  A 60 something brother was a living Hollywood stereotype, an overage stoner living in his mother's basement, until he and his new druggie girlfriend were evicted, with locks changes, for physical and financial elder abuse.
  
  Alcohol dependent folks used to whine about the need for "civilized public drinking rules like France" in Canada. They never spoke about the fact that France has entire wards and some entire hospitals full of people suffering from the permanent effects of Alcoolisme chronique. 
  
  Another  alcoholic (now in AA) brother had one of his buddies ask him if could not have "just one beer". One drink, one drunk. His reply was "Can you not have one beer? No, well who is the active alcoholic then?"