This is a long piece, but well worth the read...hang in there! Alcohol has a long history; in fact, we can trace it back roughly 12000 years. It has been used in religious rituals and ideology for centuries; The Romans and the Greeks both had gods of wine! (Bacchus and Dionysus). For much of ancient history, alcohol was actually safer to drink than the water! Of course not everyone has a history with alcohol. In Islamic and Buddhist cultures, alcohol is forbidden and in the 1