For one Tongan, that is exactly what she has been doing for almost two decades.
Ikanamoe Ma'u proudly calls herself a heavy kava drinker.
"I can drink kava all night and drink more cups than men," she says proudly.
Now living in Aotearoa, it was a pleasant surprise to notice a shift in female kava consumption on a recent trip back to Tonga, she said.
"I went home and was surprised to see a lot of young females as kava consumers and they do drink the kava."
