Reply #4: Re: "Substituting cannabis for alcohol has been described as a radical alcohol treatment protocol," [View All]

[Fly by night]

Maybe not so much. That recommendation was incorporated into the literature of the Women's Christian Temperence Union in the late 1800s.

In addition, my Indian elders have shared with me that the medicine people of many Plains and Southwestern tribes have been recommending cannabis as an alternative to alcohol since the first white men showed up to enslave their tribal members with "fire water." I recently watched Ken Burns' documentary on the Lewis and Clark Corps of Discovery, and was struck by one Indian chief's response when L&C offered whiskey as a trade good. "Why do white men insist on trying to trade us something that only makes our people weak, sick and crazy?"

On the other hand, the peace pipe has been a useful tool for centuries.
And it wasn't always filled with tobacco.