My partner and I are on a one year break from booze since July. Which is great. But as others mentioned. Meat, fried stuff, anything carbs, the list of stuff

My partner and I are on a one year break from booze since July. Which is great. But as others mentioned. Meat, fried stuff, anything carbs, the list of stuff you should avoid to stay healthy never ends. Same with interesting past times. Climbing, paragliding, street/ramp skating, horse riding etc. Much higher risk of injury or even death than with "boring" sports or no sports at all. The issue I rather have with the topic at hand & the general discussion people have around it is that the comparably "healthy" substance alternatives are illegal and/or hard to come by. That said -- we live in Berlin. You can easily get pure MDMA delivered to your door. Testing kits can be ordered from Amazon. A shop around the corner sells high quality (beautifully packaged) mushroom chocolate under the counter; in different strengths. A legal shop down the road[1] sells a LSD variant that seemingly changes every six months, as the government adds the variant they're currently selling to the controlled substance list. We found microdosing the aforementioned three, depending on occasion, is similar/better than having a glass or two of wine. With the added benefit that you can choose the substance for the occasion, for better effect. Specifically MDMA for social gatherings and mushrooms for tango dancing (which is our non-dangerous favorite past time). LSD for either, depending on mood or what we have on the shelf. And yeah, I also use LSD microdoses sometimes when writing challenging code. And while we admittedly were "a glass of wine or two a day people before" -- which seems to be the norm when you live in central Berlin --, we find that we take the above three substances only once or twice a week, mostly during weekends and always in isolation & microdosed. For MDMA the reasons are obvious (although literature is not conclusive about long term serotine depletion even being a thing with MDMA when taking it strictly in moderate doses & in isolation from other substances on the resp. occasion -- we are just not gambling there). For mushrooms and LSD the reason is simply that you don't want psychoactive effects at all. Kinda why you avoid drinking a bottle of wine by yourself during a dinner -- you still want to enjoy talking to other people. [1] https://maps.app.goo.gl/AzA9uvJx7NsxquvN8 https://maps.app.goo.gl/AzA9uvJx7NsxquvN8 resp. http://lsd.store http://lsd.store