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In this blog I will dwell on why alcohol is good for the human populace.  Before going into details, let's be clear: Alcoholism will kill you dead. Drunk driving will kill you, and probably multiple children along the way. There are no medical benefits to chronic drunkenness. For that matter anything in excess is never good.  Try drinking 3 liters of milk every day.  You will end up with so much of calcium in your body that bone joints will get fused. For all the times that booze gets us in trouble, every now and then it acts like a trusted sidekick, coming in to help us out of potentially embarrassing and life-threatening situations in ways we never thought possible. Let us go over six possible arguments on why alcohol is actually good. And I will start with the sixth one and build up to that primary reason why alcohol is the elixir of life. Alcohol makes you invincible: After the fourth or fifth round of drinks, it's not unusual to see some idiot stand up in...

Siddhartha had to allegedly meditate for 49 days under the Bodhi tree to attain Nirvana. 49 days! I will espouse, how, the potent combination of Cannabis Sativa and Psilocybe semilanceata when aided with some good old heavy metal riffs, will help one attain Nirvana, in a matter of hours. Circa 2000. Bangalore. I was still a bachelor, as where the gang of boys I usually used to frequent the movie halls and malls with. Right through the entire week, we would be working our posteriors off. Most of us were in sales and had targets to meet. This hard work and the intense pressure of meeting the sales target was one of the reasons why the weekend was really treasured. We as a group would wait for Friday evening to begin the weekend debauchery. Copious amounts of alcohol would be consumed, we would head bang our locks off to Pantera, Megadeth, Slayer, Anthrax and Judas Priest, eat the greasiest food possible and generally get completely wasted.  I can assure you, this debauchery bei...