Here you go AxelWolf

[MisterV]

V, if you want to get right down to it, you arrested the path of your alcoholism before it got worse. But then you substituted a drug (marijuana) that allows a person to use it, even use it constantly, but have far fewer deleterious effects health wise.

You disagree with that assessment?

Yes, absolutely, I disagree.

I did not substitute cannabis for alcohol.

I've smoked weed pretty much continuously since I was fifteen.

When I quit drinking I don't recall elevating my pot consumption...slow and steady as she goes.

Nor did I substitute gambling for alcolhol: I'd been gambling regularly for awhile before giving up John Barleycorn.