I mean, I guess if the world falls to fascism they would probably ban alcohol.

Not if I can help it....

already did here. the drunks cant pay the inflated prices, and pubs are goin bankrupt in the countryside.

As others have mentioned, price is becoming an issue. But also, more legalized weed is hurting alcohol as well.

It was only a matter of time before the world heard I quit drinking. Sorry everyone working on the booze industry.

Ive gone from daily beers after work to only weekends and now I drink maybe once a month.

No shit, have you seen the price of that stuff lately? Who the hell can afford to be a heavy drinker in this economy?

Pfft, wait until millennials are in nursing homes with no responsibilities and we will get those numbers through the roof. Us old girls will be single handedly propping up the cheap sweet rosé industry.

I am no teetotaler by any stretch of the imagination, I have a home bar that is better-stocked than most actual bars.

I've definitely been drinking less this year that I have in previous years.

Drinking is, for me, a social activity. I don't drink by myself, I need friends to be drinking with for it to be a good time.

Everyone's schedule sucks these days, we're all too busy and broke to go out to bars and such, and I barely have time to just straighten my house up for company to have people over to enjoy the booze I already have if their schedules manage wo line up with mine.

And even if by some miracle, all that lines up, its harder to get myself into a drinking mood. I have what I think is a pretty healthy relationship with alcohol, I'm not drinking to drown my sorrows, I do it to enhance an already good time. If I'm stressed or anxious or pissed off or whatever, I'm don't and don't won't to drink, and with the world the way it is I've pretty much been at least a little pizzed off for most of the last decade or so.

And booze is expensive and so is everything else now, I'm having to choose between things I used to enjoy and things I just need to survive more than I used to.

And even if I find the wiggle room in the budget, I'm feeling like I need to be extra critical about where my money is going. If I buy, let's say a bottle of Kentucky bourbon, that means that somewhere along the line the state of Kentucky is probably getting a cut of my booze money from taxes and frankly I don't particulaly think KY deserves my money. If I gut a bottle of Canadian rye, what even is the current state of tarrifs? Is it worth forking over a bit of my money to the feds in exchange for some Alberta Premium? (or for that matter, giving money to Alberta, they have some idiots there too)

And I have a good handful of friends who don't drink, some never started, some have stopped for various reasons (like all of the above,) so with them I'm usually not going to be drinking either.

Its just a bad time to be drinking.

Considering how expensive it's getting, kinda relatable and one of the biggest reasons why i almost quite drinking all together. Have to find cheaper addictions to replace it.

That’s great news. I wonder how that’ll impact dv numbers. I do hope that people will migrate to healthier alternatives instead of harder drugs.

E: it’s my lemmy bday. 3 years. Wow. How time flys.

It already is. So many of my favorite bars are closing...

And where are the disadvantages?

It’s so weird - looking back on so many weekends, thinking “huh, I didn’t have a beer or anything “.

Global alcohol consumption is set to drop over the next ‌decade, despite population growth and rising demand in India, which is set to become the world's biggest drinks market after China, according to market research firm IWSR.

It's gonna be wild when tolerance movements have international support...

This past winter I was bored and realized it would be way too easy to develop a drinking problem. My solution to keep myself occupied was to instead return to homebrewing beer & cider. I drink a 22oz bottle once a week on weekends now that winter is over.

I too have cut my drinking down to weekends only and even then, just light beer.

Nov 11 is the only exception where I will have a bottle of whisky.

I'm getting old, can't keep knocking them back like I used to.

It’s a stupid drug anyway. Good riddance.