i tried substituting pot for alcohol - it didn't work for me because pot couldn't get me drunk - alcohol is my drug of choice & i tried & tried to use weed to reach the same level of intoxication i could get from alcohol, but i never could smoke enough - so after smoking pot for just over four months i decided that since i could handle marijuana - i certainly could handle beer - if i can handle beer i can handle vodka -- 2 days later i was back in the hospital from alcohol poisoning - the pot clouded my mind and lowered my resistance to the old behaviors - i was hiding pot & smoking all day & arriving late for work & taking 2 hour lunches, etc.... the same addictive behaviors surrounding my alcohol use, and i didn't even recognize this pattern because i was high - my thoughts and actions were drugged thoughts and actions & drugged thoughts and actions will kill me