All magical substances must be treated with enormous respect and if you respect them and NEVER MIX WITH ALCOHOL then you will learn a lot from them. Plants have all the knowledge.
so what you mean with not drinking alcohol is like don't drink while you take ayahuasca? i would never do that :D that would be very crazy i think :D
I mean do not use alcohol with any other magical substance as then the magic wont happen. And even more getting rid of Alcohol entirely opens the door to happyness by consciousness.