“Still, an old-fashioned part of me feels that even if alcohol is worse for you than strong pot, the old-fashioned drink culture of socializing, with rough and tough macho figures such as Jack Kerouac and Jackson Pollock, was better and more creative than what we have been replacing it with.”
Ignoring the quality of their work, Kerouac drank himself to death, and Pollock died in a car crash while under the influence of alcohol. It’s like arguing for heroin because Hendrix and Joplin were great.
"The light that burns twice as bright burns half as long."