I'm against drinking and riding generally, but........

When I was a kid I used to ride smashed all the time--- sometimes so messed up I couldn't really remember riding home. Yeah, I had a few crashes. Yeah, I was risking my life and I guess I could have hurt somebody. But honestly, I think I didn't really endanger anyone but me-- I could of been killed under a bus, but I couldn't have t-boned a bus and killed anyone else.

So in a harm reduction model, riding while drunk isn't the same as driving while drunk. I'd like to ask everybody not to do it of course, but when I was 17 though 23, I really didn't care what old coots like me thought anyway.

I always try to find some middle ground with drugs and booze when it comes to young folks and I'm not 100% sure what I feel about mixing bikes and beer.