? Alcohol tastes awful, ask any kid (and adults with functioning taste buds, like me.) There is no other reason to drink it than to get "relaxed"; i.e.; mildly intoxicated. Otherwise, you would be drinking iced tea or soda pop. People vastly underestimate how impaired they are by even one beer. Marijuana is the same, to frequent users. They enjoy the act of smoking, do it to relax, and some with higher tolerance don't get "high" unless they consume quite a bit. I think drinking OR smoking pot and then driving is the height of folly. I personally don't drink or smoke pot, because I don't like feeling impaired, and stoned/drunk people are both really annoying. I do like smoking tobacco, with coffee, but since my vice is now illegal most everywhere, I have to abstain most of the time. So my sympathy for people not allowed to consume their drug of choice in public is limited.