However I would like to experience the effects of it sometimes, so do you know any good and hopefully (more) healthy alternatives to it?
I did a lot of reading and tried a lot of different stuff to deal with my medical condition. Inflammation is a major component of my condition. I found that changing my diet with an eye towards correcting PH balance and removing foods that are inflammatory for other reasons did me enormous good and helped me get off multiple anti-inflammatory drugs. Not saying that going back to drinking would be a great idea, just saying that occasional alcohol isn't necessarily a big problem if you can address the problem effectively through other avenues.
That's the best I can do. I react allergically to marijuana and never tried any other recreational stuff.
Best of luck.
PS: I hear green tea is suppose to be good for you.
then there's kavakava, but that's not particularly social.
weed.
shrugs
morphine? :]
It is not a pleasant tasting root.I have a blend of stevia, mango powder and cinnamon that I came up with that tastes good and has a strong effect. awesomekava [at] gmail if interested
I doubt that they are particularly healthy though.
A separate Harvard study indicated that marijuana may be helpful in treating lung cancer, reducing tumor growth[2].
However, the effects of smoking weed seem pretty different from alcohol to me. So depending what you want out of alcohol, it may be a poor substitute. But the health risks of weed are nominal. It's one of the safest recreational drugs mankind has come up with. (Smoking anything too much can harsh out your lungs, but weed can be eaten in foods, vaporized, etc.)
[1]: http://www.webmd.com/lung-cancer/news/20060523/pot-smoking-n...
[2]: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/04/070417193338.ht...
you'll be buried next to me about six months later, with a little sign that says "he tried really, really hard to live longer than -> that guy"
What I blame it on, though, was living in South American and drinking a lot of really cheap local wisky. After my Kermit the Frog - green week from hell barfing, I stopped drinking hard booze; stopped everything for about 3 weeks, then slowly started with beer again. And now, I only drink beer. It hasn't come back for the last 4 years. I try to keep it to 6-9 beers a night (4-6 for the first year afterwards). I can't guarantee the same results for you.
On a short term basis I'd recommend taking one Xanax, one Vicodin and 1-2 beers, as that won't cause another pancreatitis attack and it pretty well mimics the effect of a twelve pack. If you're one of the 19-drinks-a-night crowd though, I'd suggest treatment because nothing is going to fix it without almost killing you.
Party on, amigo.