Posted on 05/03/2024 9:45:08 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Dry January's popularity is on the up with many younger generations – mainly Gen Z – deciding to spend their weekends alcohol free. While millennials may reminisce back to their Friday nights in their early 20s shuffling foot to foot holding lurid coloured alcopop bottles, Gen Z are choosing to abstain entirely. In fact, recent research conducted by Heineken 0.0, has highlighted that Gen Z alcohol consumption dropped by 25% over the last four years.
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I quit drinking two-plus years ago at the age of 75. Never felt better.
Drink, drink!
Let the toast start!
May young hearts never part!
Drink, drink, drink!
Let every true lover salute his sweetheart!
Let’s drink! - The Student Prince
I went Guinness 0 and Heineken 0.0, heart and brain are thankful
Well good for them...then again - are they doing this, but also smoking joints?
I remember back in the late 80’s racing with my buddy’s to the liquor store and getting there at 10:59 to buy beer, one minute before closing.
Now the booze stores around me close at 9pm and tonight, a friday the place was dead at 8:45.
young people either don’t hang out together anymore or they hang but don’t drink or they just sit home alone and text each other..
I think a part of it is that our country was shut down due to covid-19, and they got used to texting each other, Snapchat and TikTok.
No need to go out and buy a drink.
In 1987 i turned 20.
That era everything we did whether hanging over a buddies house, fixing cars, fishing, doing anything...
included drinking beer.
That fad is over i think.
The fad of young friends hanging out all of the time is mostly over as well i imagine.
....... OK ... So booze consumption is down .... But what they don't tell you is that Marijuana and hallucinogen use in the past year reported by young adults 19 to 30 years old has increased significantly.
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In my younger days, I engaged in “mindless drinking”.
Who can afford it? A beer at the pub is $7. A six pack of good beer is $12. It is a crazy expensive habit.
But they're not allowed to sell liquor between 2 a.m. and 6 a.m.
Weed’s legal.
Vaping. Crystal Meth, Marijuana.
Massively diagnosed with mental illness, they’re also loaded up with legal drugs.
That’s why I’ve mostly stopped: Brandonomics.
The question worth asking is what has replaced the alcohol. I’m pretty sure it’s not prayer circles.
BINGO! They believe that MJ is “healthy.”
Brought up on ADHD and anti anxiety drugs to combat “toxic masculinity” and in lieu of discipline by (usually) divorced leftist single soccer mom. Now they just have their kid’s sex changed from (usually) male to female.
Haven’t you heard? Pot is “medicine”.
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