Subject: Re: indexes down another 1.5-2 percent
Would be very careful about buying any alcohol related companies. Hemp drinks (at least in the USA) are slowly but surely increasing their market share.

Hmm, I think any trend lasting that many thousand years is likely to keep going a while yet. Longer than I will, anyway.
Perhaps hundreds of thousands of years...there are quite a few animals that will seek out fermenting fruit to get tipsy on it. I am one such.

That being said, it is entirely reasonable to expect average volumes to be lower than they were. Internationally the trend is more about young'uns abstaining, not switching to weed products. Some observers think that may be a bit related to the fact that the young folk are pretty broke, and they might spend a little more later. Nothing like staring to go bald to make you feel like you could use the comfort of a nice scotch.

Jim