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

submitted 1 year 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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[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca -1 points 1 year ago

"I don't like feeling like someone is treating me like a child," is both an unhelpful way of interpreting the situation -- no one is treating anyone like a child, they are treating them like human beings who are subject to addiction and lapses in judgement while intoxicated (so much worse than children) -- and also a really poor and selfish reason to inflict the negative effects that do correlate with increased availability on other people.