My only chemical use is weed and alcohol and I'm kind of tapering off on the drinking- it makes my depression act up big time. I'm not sure if I'll ever say, "I don't drink and never will again" but I do want to at some point get to where I don't really drink, but if I'm at the company holiday party people aren't asking me why I don't have a drink and then going 'ooooh you don't drink you must have had a problem can I get you a glass of warm milk instead?' Don't scoff, I've gone through a couple spells of not drinking at all and people can be major asses about it. When your 'friend' is calling you up shitfaced at 11pm and trying to explain in slurred speech that he respects your decision not to drink but don't try to force it on him, and then trying to get you to come out for 'just one' before the bars close to prove that you CAN just have one, it's always a lovely situation....
It's in a way easier to turn down something that's illegal anyway... so why isn't weed, being far safer, legal, and alcohol not? Seems it would make things much simpler now wouldn't it?