Thanks for reading and commenting Michael. Appreciate it and I’d like to clear up a couple of mistakes you’re making. As much as you try to rewrite the dictionary you can’t change the fact that sobriety is not always about abstinence. Abstinence is not drinking alcohol. Sobriety can incorporate abstinence or cannot. This is not my opinion. This is the fact from WHO. This exclusivity between sobriety and abstinence comes from AA. Feel free to check it out using the links I have provided in my article. Furthermore, if you read my article you would see that I do not drink one or two drinks OR smoke weed. So I don’t appreciate your insinuation that I’m looking for some kind of get out clause, if you are alcohol free like me, and have worked hard to get there then you will know how offensive that accusation is. I don’t follow the path of Cali sober or moderation right now but I write about sobriety and I’m able to have empathy for those that choose another path to sobriety. I purposefully don’t criticize those that choose another path, one that involves abstinence or elements of Cali sober because I haven’t walked in their shoes. We all have the freedom to choose what works for us. Ultimately our decisions are our own. But you can’t change the semantics. Abstinence is not always necessary for sobriety.