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Originally Posted by undercoverbrother
This is a step in the right direction.
I should be able to walk down the street with a beer as long as I am not a drunk #######.
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It's really just poor logic and puritanism that leads to a law against an adult walking down the street with an alcoholic beverage.
Firstly, that law doesn't address what it's meant to address, which is belligerent drunks in public. The vast majority of people in that state are just going to chug booze somewhere else or have the boozed mixed into another container.
The only reason to ban consumption in public is to hide drinking from the public, which is totally bizarre as you can do that openly at a table in a public restaurant.
BC has now allowed public drinking in parks and designated drinking zones....it's created zero new issues with drunkenness....it's still illegal to walk to a the park from your car with a beer in hand...or walk between designated areas though....