What are your opinions on regular drinking?

Honestly, I don't drink much anymore. I drank a lot as a student and I was youthful enough not to feel too many after effects.

But now... maybe once or twice a month tops. I'm mostly there for the taste now. I brew beer. I drink so little of it I end up giving away most of my bottles, or maybe sharing one with several friends on occasion. I love a good whiskey, but I'd rather buy an expensive bottle and let it last several years than powering through it or getting fucked up with cheap booze.

Truth is, I literally can't stomach heavy drinking anymore. So now I more often than not stop when sufficiently buzzed or when my taste buds give up.

Opinions? You do you. No amount of alcohol is apparently "safe" in terms of health effects, according to newer research. For a ton of people that doesn't matter that much.

I really enjoyed the drinking and weed combo (getting wasted all the time and skipping most of the hang over with weed felt like a life hack), thought i could do it forever - but then it just felt normal at some point. In the end alcohol gave me gout attacks and weed gave me random anxiety attacks.

I miss them like toxic lovers, but i know they're shit and totally not worth it. Learning how to "be sober" was really hard as a result of doing it for so long.

all that and it tastes like shit, has tons of calories, makes you feel bad after, and the high is really mid and doesn't last very long

I stopped about 5 years ago. I have depressive tendencies and drinking heightens the negative emotions much more than the positive ones (for me, at least). It wouldn't take much to send me spiralling for the night.

Also, to your point - I couldn't do math well for like a week after drinking, and I need to for my work.

Same. In UK that excludes you a social pariah. It's annoying how much society is centred around alcohol.