When i feel "awful" or need something to get me in the "groove" it's usually 2-4 mg xanax and maybe a few beers. 4 mg of xanax might seem high to some of you, but I'm a big guy and i have had a high tolerance to most medications all my life. Weed is rare here, but there's some hash (both cannabis products). Some time ago i and few of my friend's were smoking BIG time while playing cards and the products were grade A and i did not drop a dime on it. We smoked 4 different kinds of products/hybrids and one of them was this super expensive "innovative" hash hybrid Indian-Thai "flower" and both of my friends (regular size guys) were tripping balls, but i smoked about the same amount as they did combined and just felt a little relaxed. So to each his own.
As for alcohol I'm all for occasional drinking, here in Scandinavia alcohol does not have that "taboo" that it still has in some countries. Funny thing is when i did construction work, there were plenty of guys who were full blown alcoholics and some times they talked about gear (which they did not know anything about) and at the same time were half dead at the time and fully dead now, HAH HAH. They were allways like: "heart attacks, cancer, roid rage and that same BS. Just from hormones that you already have in you, for example testosterone...
So as far as i'm concerned gear should be available to adults legally.