[StudebacherHoch]

Taking booze out of the equation was, for me, one of the smartest decisions I've made...my only vice these days (at 58) is vaporizing high-quality California herb. I don't miss any of the baggage that goes along with drinking, and I've been able to accomplish most of my life-goals - so I'll stick to the green! Interesting theory about young pot-smokers looking younger later in life - I've been toking for 46 years, and I look at least 10 years younger than my age!

[Lime]

in the drinking wagon thread OP The Lizard of Oz wrote:

"As I wrote in an earlier post, one of the most subtly devastating ways in which drinking diminishes men is the boredom that drinkers start to feel with everyday life. And I know from the experience of myself and others close to me that it takes months -- sometimes as long as 6-9 months -- before you begin to recapture the feeling of a natural thankfulness for the everyday and the relishing of simple things from the middle of life that drinking so insidiously blurs. This is why a 1 year wagon is the way to go."

Really? Do people really regain that natural thankfullness after the drinking wagon? Or is that too high of an expectation?