A person can be drunk on money as well, I mean just look at the reaction people have when given large amounts of money, and then to see what they do with it, wow, it's drunkeness as well.
WHY do you persist in doing violence to words and their proper definitions... with grandiose philosophy?
You also made it a point to emphasize being under the influence (under the power of?). A person can be drunk/under the influence/under the power of money, fame, luxuries, family, alchohol, hate, etc. Drunk is just another word for being under the power of something. Anyone pointing fingers at someone under the power of something should keep in mind the fact that almost all are not under the power of God alone, because we are still in the body of this death. I will not judge anyone who drinks, or look down on them anymore or any less than someone who does not approve of taking action regarding all things common, equality, no respect of persons, casting lots, etc, because those who do not approve of taking steps towards these goals that help with unlimited fruitfulness, are also under the power of something besides only God.
All that the Everlasting Priesthood needs is God (our one and only inheritance), and everything else is a tool to be used in the goal of unlimited fruitfulness and edification. If we do not understand that nothing is ours but God/Light, then we are under the power of that something that we consider our own. A person who is under the power of the need to have a certain quality of life is equally hindered from unlimited fruitfulness as much as a person under the power of something else like alchohol. The only difference is the way the world and Christians treat the various people (respect of persons), and that is partly why there is such a thing as a greater sin than another sin. Alchohol brings out the abundance of the heart much easier for many, and for many the abundance of the heart is damaging to others. This makes drinking alchohol to the point of drunkeness with a bad abundance of the heart an equal sin to lying, but if it brings out even more damaging actions, attitudes, thoughts, and words because of a bad abundance of the heart a more damaging choice which many times results in even more sin.
1Co 10:29 Conscience, I say, not thine own, but of the other: for why is my liberty judged of another man's conscience?
1Co 10:30 For if I by grace be a partaker, why am I evil spoken of for that for which I give thanks?
1Co 10:31 Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.
1Co 10:32 Give none offence, neither to the Jews, nor to the Gentiles, nor to the church of God:
1Co 10:33 Even as I please all men in all things, not seeking mine own profit, but the profit of many, that they may be saved.
It is possible in certain circumstances and situations that drinking alchohol can be a decision based on the motivation to love the Lord and your neighbor as yourself. If someone offers a specific type of person a beer, and accepting that beer is more edifying than rejecting it, then it's better to accept it for that specific type of person. In the same way it is edifying to eat or drink things that appear to be less than edible from a certain perspective, because if it's offered by people who value that seemingly unedible food or drink, then we know that God takes care of the rest. This is also why we can drink deadly water and it won't hurt us, as long as it's not testing God, and it brings glory to God. I agree that for the majority of Christians, they look at any alchohol and any smoking or chewing or things like that as something unedifying, and so in this culture we should just let it go, and seek to edify. If there are other cultures where it is more edifying to accept certain things which they consider a gift that other cultures consider an abomination, it is more edifying to be made all things to all men, that we by all means might save some. I believe that a soldier on the front lines is more likely to be in these situations, rather than a more localized member of the church.
Word definitions are definitely important.
1Co_2:13 Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.