Alcohol doesn't help me play chess.
I play better when im buzzed.

Alcohol only? With Benzo's and weed, yeah, Do I play better? there is a time of usage interference and only aspect that is better is creativity, I recommend no drugs at all for health in longer terms or even needed at all.

Hey, you get morphine for a cheap price any pain easy pie, but don't get high man! Reefer's Madness...

What is fact is that we have no freedom of choice, that is due to lobbying and revolving door into gov and corporate. If I'm wrong correct me please but that is precisely fascism. Mussolini said it, the merge of big corps and goverments.
Perhaps with *amphetamines* one might be more focused, but with alcohol (a chemical depressant, remember), one is impaired during play, whether buzzed or outright drunk.
A question for adults 21 or older. Do you feel like you play better being slightly drunk while playing chess?