DAE feel like they don’t have the same effects from alcohol as others?

Hi, some background info: I’m 29 years old and have done every single drug under the sun. I spent 4 years shooting heroin, smoking crack, and 10 years doing acid/molly/Xanax/whatever. I’ve actually been “California sober” (I smoke CBD flower and occasionally drink wine) since 2019.

What blows my mind is that, like, yes, on occasion I do feel a pleasant buzz from a glass of wine. I even have a blast at weddings getting drunk. But I’m surrounded by people who LOVE drinking (mostly in-laws, and a lot of people in my age group) and I just don’t really get it? I understand addiction/escapism but even back when I’d do literally any drug, I always found alcohol to be super lame and underwhelming when it comes to actually feeling GOOD. I did uppers, downers and psychedelics and found all of it to be sooo much more pleasurable than drinking. What is it that people like so much about it? I really cannot comprehend AT ALL the idea of being a lifelong alcoholic because it just isn’t that fucking great. Even eating a pizza fires off my dopamine receptors harder than alcohol does, and pizza doesn’t make me feel gross and dried out the next day. Again, love an occasional drunken wedding but anything more than a handful of times a year and I get really sick of it and it loses its luster. Is this a genetic thing? A personality thing? The irony is that my mom is a recovering alcoholic and my paternal grandfather drank a lot (and was likely an alcoholic).

If it matters, I was obsessed with smoking weed for a decade and always preferred it to drinking and I do feel there is a crowd of people out there who share the same sentiment. I also find that a lot of people who LOVE alcohol either hate weed or have zero interest in trying it, despite my explanations of CBD being a great alternative to the uber-strong modern strains of weed.

And it’s actually kind of funny because alcohol was the one thing I never got addicted to simply because I think it kind of sucks. I’ve dealt with food addiction and drug addiction and nicotine addiction and video game addiction, but alcohol? Meh lol

I think a lot of it has to do with the comedown, like if you drink a good amount with your dinner, you feel shitty by 9 PM unless you keep drinking, and then the next day sucks. The only drug that’s like that for me is cocaine because the comedown is so ass and is mental torture but honestly there’s still no hangover or anything the next day lol.

Lmk if you have an explanation, feel similarly etc