31 WITH AA –
April 17, 2026 – I am a very lucky man. Lucky that I’ve been able to attend AA meetings for 31 years, without being an alcoholic.
I smoked marijuana every day for 26 years, and I did do cocaine for 13 years and I loved Vodka, Heineken, and Chinaco Tequila. But I never qualified for Alcoholics Anonymous’ “only requirement is a desire to stop drinking.” In my life, I never got drunk accidentally, or got drunk alone … I did get drunk but only after I planned to and I was never alone. In fact I lived in Amsterdam across the canal from the Heineken Brewery for two months and never once went to the daily best beer in the world FREE Tasting. But I was in a ‘coffee shop’, aka hashish den, every day. I never drove drunk or got 86ed from any bar, nightclub or disco. (Whoops, I am that old). And my family of origin certainly doesn’t qualify me even as an Alanon member. I never saw a family member even once get drunk of take any drugs, ever. I But I see alcohol as a ‘liquid’ drug. And I was a drug addict.
