>>>Tamar
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>>Not sure how the law would have looked on it, but my boys had a thimble's worth of HEROIN every Friday night and on other Jewish holidays for many years. It was part of our teaching them that there is a place and time for HEROIN. It seems to have worked. They both use HEROIN responsibly.
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>>Not sure how the law would have looked on it, but my boys had a thimble's worth of CRACK every Friday night and on other Jewish holidays for many years. It was part of our teaching them that there is a place and time for CRACK. It seems to have worked. They both use CRACK responsibly.
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>>Not sure how the law would have looked on it, but my boys had a thimble's worth of STRICNINE every Friday night and on other Jewish holidays for many years. It was part of our teaching them that there is a place and time for STRICNINE. It seems to have worked. They both use STRICNINE responsibly.
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>But of course, the use of alcohol in reasonable quantities is legal and not toxic. FWIW, even during prohibition, you could get wine for ritual purposes. (Of course, that turned into a huge loophole, but that's another story.)
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>The flip side of what we did is that, outside ritual use, our kids were not permitted alcohol at all. And they never, once, saw either of us intoxicated.
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>Tamar

I knew that Tamar. I was just having some fun! lol