Feb. 24, 2025 - Freedomain Radio - Stefan Molyneux
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| Now, there's a couple of things I've sort of railed against over the years, maybe more than a couple. | |
| One is weed, and weed and psychosis, weed and schizophrenia, weed and mental collapse are well documented. | |
| Now, another is alcohol. | |
| Another is alcohol. | |
| I was trying to think, I really was trying to think of the last time I had a drink, and I had half a shot of fireball whiskey a couple of weeks ago when I was trying to clear my sinuses, and before that, Maybe six weeks before that, I had a Michelob Ultra while playing trivia with some friends. | |
| I couldn't remember prior to that. | |
| So, I mean, I'm not a 100% teetotaler, but I last got drunk when I was about... | |
| It was after I played Macbeth, the cast party, I got drunk. | |
| And I was 21 or 22. That was the last time I got drunk. | |
| I mean, I just won't do it. | |
| It's just absolutely vile. | |
| Being drunk is like voluntarily giving yourself... | |
| Vertigo and a neurological disorder. | |
| You know, the spins are horrible. | |
| You're sitting on the bed and, you know, what's the old line? | |
| You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on. | |
| And especially if you drink beer, you feel nauseous. | |
| You get the spins. | |
| You just want to sleep, but you can't sleep because you keep waking up to pee because you drank so much beer. | |
| It's really just the most vile thing around. | |
| And I just become, I'm exactly myself when I drink, when I drank. | |
| I'm exactly myself. | |
| Just nauseous and uncoordinated. | |
| Why on earth would I do that to myself? | |
| You know, I guess some people drink because they're socially anxious, but I don't really have any of that kind of stuff. | |
| But alcohol, this is from Gin Norman. | |
| In England, here's the drug harm score out of 100 for selected drugs. | |
| This is as of 2010. So, harm to users, health, damage, mental impairment, independence, mortality, loss of tangibles, and relationships, harm to others, community, economic, and environmental costs, crime and injury, family adversities. | |
| Number one by far is alcohol. | |
| Number one by far is alcohol, with a score over 70 out of 100. This is the drug harm score. | |
| It's a combination of harm to others and harm to self, harm to users. | |
| So, way at the top is alcohol. | |
| Next is heroin with a score of 55. Crack cocaine, score of 53-54. | |
| Then methamphetamine, cocaine, tobacco, amphetamine, cannabis, benzodiazepines. | |
| Isn't that what took down Jordan Peterson? | |
| Ketamine, methadone, ecstasy, LSD, and mushrooms. | |
| Now, again, I'm aware. | |
| I mean, I understand the multivariable factors, right? | |
| That alcohol is higher than heroin because alcohol, Is more common than heroin. | |
| I get all of that. | |
| I understand all of that. | |
| What harm does alcohol cause you? | |
| Well, immediate drowsiness, feeling of relaxation. | |
| I never got that. | |
| Loss of inhibitions. | |
| Lord knows I could use a few more inhibitions in my life, so alcohol did not help me with that. | |
| Confusion, loss of consciousness, slower breathing, slower heart rate, nausea, vomiting, dehydration. | |
| Unsteadiness, loss of coordination, risky behavior, e.g. | |
| unsafe sex. | |
| Of course, I would include drunk driving and all of that. | |
| Long-term dependence. | |
| Pretty big. | |
| Increased risk of anxiety and depression. | |
| Brain damage. | |
| Yeah, that's important. | |
| Heart problems, liver problems, increased risk of diabetes and obesity, malnutrition, cancer, and serious birth defects if used during pregnancy. |
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