[TorqueDog]

So as far as alcohol goes, my answer is an early-mid increase followed by a swift decrease. When the weather first started getting nice, we'd have friends over to sit at the end of our walkway while we sat on our steps, having a few summer alcobevs. However, I'm not a big drinker to begin with, I might have a drink or two maybe twice a month. I'm certain I've gone months at a time without consuming alcohol. I enjoy a good scotch here and there but the opportunity for that usually happens infrequently (even though I have quite the alcohol cabinet in the basement wet-bar). So yeah, less overall because fewer social situations mean fewer times when I would possibly have a drink.

Cannabis is a different thing entirely, and to appreciate my answer here requires understanding that I left a job this spring that was no longer a good fit (a change overdue by a solid 6 months). At my old job, I was self medicating before bed to sleep and sometimes 'just because'. I started my new role in April and since then I can count on one hand the number of times I've touched the stuff in total. It isn't that I don't like it, it's just that I haven't felt the want or need to do it. Pre-COVID, a buddy and I would use it as a precursor to playing video games. So my cannabis use has dropped dramatically.

So answer to both is they've decreased considerably, though how COVID has influenced each is different.