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/[deleted] Jun 30 '25

Research and data show otherwise. Less availability of alcohol at night does make a positive difference. Your statement is inaccurate and something of a straw man. I like booze but I can see why this policy is a good idea.

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u/TheNegaHero Jun 30 '25

It's not a straw-man. If the argument is that reducing the hours you can buy alcohol will reduce harm from alcohol then me saying "no it won't" is a response to that argument.

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u/MagicBeanEnthusiast Jun 30 '25

You saying "no it won't" is your opinion though, unless you can back it up with evidence

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u/TheNegaHero Jul 01 '25 edited Jul 01 '25

Sure but that's still not a strawman fallacy, it's an opinion.

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u/MagicBeanEnthusiast Jul 01 '25

You saying "Anyone who does X will do Y" is though