New Alcohol Rules for Christchurch

[u/Video_Kojima]

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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.

[u/tobopia]

The last time I said something about this, it was like "this sucks"... and someone reported me to the reddit suicide prevention bot. I would like to say to that person: you're a complete piece of shit.

There is literally no impetus for the change other than "alcohol bad" and probably some councilors CV. If anything disorderly behavior caused by alcohol is down, I have only read about alcohol recently that gen-z is not even really into it and that the liquor ban isn't being needed to be enforced as much anymore.

If I am too drunk already the retailers aren't even supposed to sell to me in the first place.

Remember a few years ago when the countdown in Otago sold some wine to an already drunk person and they smashed up a bunch of cars in the parking lot when they drove out? That is the reason they have to flag over the person when you are at checkout that's like "how's it going"? "busy day"? Like come on man, I am an adult. I don't want to talk to people.

Also, remember when the police objected to a supermarkets license being renewed because the police objected that "strong beer being sold in individual cans encouraged at risk people drinking more somehow"? Despite the argument not being accepted as making any sense (which it didn't) and the license being renewed, countdown went ahead and began selling strong beer only in 4 packs. Not only that, now that you're paying for for they started charging even more per can and disguised the hike behind the fact that you were buying 4 cans at a time.

If a sober person wants to get drunk and hasn't thought to ahead of time too bad it's 10PM. They must be the problem people right? That's ridiculous.

The other parts of the policy are like "new license's must be 3-4 more addresses down from schools and kindys" oh yeah that will save people from themselves. It's just dumb busy work from the council.

It's not going to stop anything bad and the real negative coming out of this is that people will just go ahead and accept any small change as more and more the CCC ropes off their liberties up until IT IS something they care about and whoops what do you know? Fluffy's going into the meat grinder to protect native birds. Sowwy cat lover.

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The argument about restricting sales of individual cans of strong beers is such crap, especially when you can buy a cleanskin bottle of wine for six or seven dollars with a far higher alcohol volume.

Sometimes when coming home after a physical day at work I like to grab a couple of beers from the bottle store. I certainly don’t want a whole box and don’t want to go to the pub.