Gateway (drugs)

People sometimes call alcohol a drug, especially in the hands of those who tend towards an addiction. For the sad lovers in Days of Wine and Roses, alcohol is not just a drug but seriously dangerous.

For most of us, it’s a beverage before, during, or after dinner.

Now that marijuana is legal, I have declassified its status as a drug. I won’t bore you with my last use of pot nearly a half-century ago.

It’s been ages, at any rate, since weed was hysterically labeled a gateway to major addiction like heroin. And to answer the unasked question in the ‘graph above, no, I did not develop a habit.

My friend D stopped for a visit bearing no less a goody than Kedem Sparkling Grape Juice.

All morning, I have been grappling with whether to consider this a gateway to wine or more exotically to Champagne 🍾 🤔.

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