The Bottle

I once drank a bottle of wine every day for two weeks. It was kind of weird, as alcohol was hardly my drug of choice. When I stopped, I felt a bit shaky. But I'm lucky - I got past it. Nowadays, I just don't feel the "need" to consume red wine anymore. Others aren't so lucky. Humans have, since before the dawn of recorded history, sought medicines to alleviate the symptoms of unbearable pain, psychic as well as physical. No kind of prohibition will ever change that. North American society, steeped in punitive, puritanical attitudes, seems unable to compromise when it comes to the brutal criminalization of substance use it has, for whatever supposedly good reasons, stigmatized. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upKsTCKYm4E