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Doug Ford wants alcohol in convenience stores (www.theglobeandmail.com)

submitted 2 years ago by sbv@sh.itjust.works to c/ontario@lemmy.ca

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The Ontario Public Health Association ... cites multiple studies showing that increases in the number of places where alcohol can be bought in Ontario, and in other jurisdictions, have already led to more consumption and more of the harms that come with it, such as suicides, drunk driving, emergency-room visits and higher rates of cancer.

I enjoy booze, but I like that it's hard to get. I don't need any more encouragement to mess up my liver.

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[–] Gazing2863@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm almost convinced Trudeau did the weed in the beginning for similar reasons. Though I support what Doug is doing here, and what Trudeau did regarding weed, I do like to entertain the conspiracy theory thinking too. The less sober society is the easier it is to make bad policy decisions without as much pushback :D

[–] psvrh@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

We legalized weed because a) people who got in at the ground floor got rich, and b) it'd hopefully get everyone to forget about his other keystone promise: electoral reform.