wld, some food for thought:

Uisce baugh, which gave us the word whiskey, means Water of Life. So does the French eau de vie. There's got to be a reason for that.

And I think it is this: Our world's greatest artists (and I'm lumping writers, painters and musicians together here) have always achieved their peaks by altering their minds -- with whichever substances were available to them. And it would be a dull and boring world indeed if no such substances were around.

Cheers,
Michael