I decided to take a few days off from drinking beer.
This came at the request of my doctor, who was a little taken aback when I told him how much beer I drink every week. I also smoke a lot of pot, and eat a lot of fast food, so my body is pretty much a wreck. Still, I wanted to try and heed the doc’s advice and decided to try having a “dry weekend.” I never considered myself an alcoholic until I realized how much I missed drinking beer – and this was just the first day! To tide myself over I went to the cannabis dispensary with the intent of getting a nice sack of weed. With a head full of cannabis smoke, maybe I wouldn’t miss beer as much. Instead, I stumbled across a new cannabis product that I never knew existed. I have never cared for edibles, so it never occurred to me that there would be drinks infused with cannabis. I found an entire cooler of different cannabis drinks, ranging from sparkling water to fruit juice. They also had beer that was infused with cannabis, and I made a mental note to try that one next time. Instead I stuck to my vow of “no beer” and bought a six-pack of strawberry lime juice enhanced with cannabis and CBD oil. The cannabis drinks taste nothing like beer, and I found them far too sweet, but they did distract me from beer. I had something cold in my hand to sip on, and even if it wasn’t beer it got me high,