Alcohol and Like Substances
Popular to engage in but not as popular to discuss
If there is any subject to be addressed that has hysteria on all sides of the issue, it would be the subject of recreational drugs and substances. Catholicism does not have a great deal of reason to comment on such things except where its use can be a way one stumbles into sin, legitimate scandal is given, and/or when free will is surrendered in their way. That being said there are boundaries one must largely follow their conscience on. Since it is important to have a well-formed conscience, we will take a philosophical approach to the use of such substances and hopefully allow one to engage with them if at all, in a way that is order to only the good to be attained and none of the bad such as addiction, feeding into the recreational drug user culture, etc. Insofar as these recreational drugs exist there are creatures, they are to be used for obtaining eternal life and spreading the kingdom of God, and moderated for such purposes to be maintained as the core motivation for their use, Alcohol shall be our case example.