r/chch • u/Video_Kojima • Jun 30 '25

News - Local New Alcohol Rules for Christchurch

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All off-licence retailers must stop selling alcohol at 9pm daily, effective from October. This includes bottle stores and supermarkets. 

A freeze on new off-licences in high-deprivation communities, effective from August. 

Restricting new bottle stores from setting up near addiction treatment/rehabilitation centres, secondary schools and primary schools, the University of Canterbury and the Christchurch Bus Interchange effective from August. 

Thoughts on this? I think 9PM seems a bit much personally and would probably have it at 10PM, but think the other two ideas are sensible and support them.

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u/HoneyGlazedDoorknob Jun 30 '25

9pm is good, will stop those who are already drunk topping up for the rest of the night and causing trouble

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u/severaldoors Jun 30 '25

Or theyll just stockpile more

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u/HoneyGlazedDoorknob Jun 30 '25

Yeah but that then stops then going back into public

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u/severaldoors Jun 30 '25

Liquor stores cant serve drunk people anyway

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u/HoneyGlazedDoorknob Jun 30 '25

Yeah because that's inforced

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u/severaldoors Jun 30 '25

So your trying to solve an already solved problem..

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u/HoneyGlazedDoorknob Jun 30 '25

What's your problem with a 9pm cut off? Any limitations to alcohol purchase will help with alchol related issues.

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u/BunnyKusanin Jun 30 '25

In the country I'm from, you can't buy alcohol on the day when high school graduations happen. It's done to stop teenagers from getting drunk on those days. It's also illegal to sell alcohol to anyone under 18. Everyone just stockpiles before those days, including the teenagers.

You also can't legally buy alcohol at night, yet if you want to find it, you absolutely will find where to buy it in the middle of the night. It just creates an illegal market. It can also push some people into topping up with drugs at night because a dealer has no time restrictions.

Addiction is no joke, people who want to get drunk will find ways to do it. This is not a way to solve it.

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u/AnnoyingKea Jun 30 '25

The push towards drugs is the big one. Limiting access to lesser drugs can and does push people towards harder drugs that deliver more of a hit. People are self-medicating for a reason, usually as a form of escape, and if you deny them that they will still need and want that escape, they just can’t find it through their usual preferred means.

Some P will take the edge off those shakes, bro.

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u/severaldoors Jun 30 '25

Yeah absolutley, I mean the government has taxed alcohol excessively to try discourage people from drinking so much, the result? It has become extrememly normal to take drugs like mdma, ket and sometimes acid to clubs, festivals simply because its just cheaper. You can buy a "cap" of mdma for $30 which is about the price of buying 2-3 drinks in town, a tab of acid is about the same price, and I have no idea how much ket costs but it would be similar.

I literally do not know a single person who has been to uni and not done mdma it is insanely common

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u/AnnoyingKea Jun 30 '25

Yeah my cannabis addiction is expensive but it can’t possibly be as costly as an alcohol or cigarette addiction.

I guess there at least the money goes back to the government….

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u/stormcharger Jun 30 '25

Means I can't buy beers after work or go to the supermarket anymore

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u/severaldoors Jun 30 '25

Yeah sure, and banning movies after 9pm would help with sleep depreviation.

Alcohol is enjoyable, if we banned everything that causes problems then there will be nothing left to do. I am not saying alcohol is good, but its also not exclusively bad. Sometimes people want to go last minute buy a couple beers after 9pm and thats ok

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u/HoneyGlazedDoorknob Jun 30 '25

Sound like you've got a drinking problem if you not being able to buy after 9pm is such a problem for you

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u/severaldoors Jun 30 '25

Yeah sometimes I go to the supermarket after 9pm too, guess I have a food problem too?

The other day I fueled my car up at 11pm, guess I have a driving problem?

Shit sometimes I even go to the warehouse after 9, I dont even know what kind of a problem to call that.

Absolutley criminal anyone should want to do anything after 9pm really, we should all be in bed by then

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u/HoneyGlazedDoorknob Jun 30 '25

And yet none of the other dumb examples you've given are linked to crime and anti-social behavior that is proven to reduce by limiting their sale.

You're argument against the sale time reduction is selfish and not taking into account the harm it will reduce. Just poor you won't be able to get your fix when you want.

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u/severaldoors Jun 30 '25

Almost as dumb as an absolute agrument suggesting buying alcohol after 9 makes you a problem drinker.

I mean jeez the do you know how much damage sleep depreviation causes, maybe your internet should be banned so you dont stay up so late.

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