Reply #114: Yes, the OP said "loosen up" -- following the word "must"

[Silent3]

Here it is again, emphasis mine: "Therefore, I must drink beer to loosen up and have a good time."

This isn't saying that pot or beer are merely optional means of loosening up and having a good time, but that one or the the other (pot preferred, beer the less favored fallback plan) are requirements for loosening up and having a good time.

If neither pot nor beer were available, and the suggested apparently necessary solution to this dire lack of chemical adjustment was squeezing sterno through an old sock, would you start to see a troublesome dependency issue then?