Re: Alcohol consumption in Pakistan: Don’t mix sin with crime
Give Pakistan the ability to enforce such regulations, and then happily make everything legal.
If Pakistan was generally a law abiding society where regulations are by and large respected, then I’ll have no problems with what you say.
If the rich and ‘intelligentsia’ can get all the alcohol they want and none of them have been prosecuted for consumption or possession, then why make so much noise about it?
So, after the prohibition is removed, then suddenly poor would be able to afford quality alcohol? Do poor Indians don’t die often consuming bootlegged alcohol in states where there is no alcohol ban?
Efforts to shut down such bootlegging operations would be only a small portion of what would be required to regulate the whole industry. Why not actively try and shut down moonshine operations? And get rid of cigarettes while you are at it. My problem is simple: I do not want my children having easy access to alcohol on street corner shops. Easy access is one the major reasons for widespread smoking problem in teenagers in Pakistan.
I provide you evidence. http://www.who.int/substance_abuse/publications/global_alcohol_report/msb_gsr_2014_1.pdf?ua=1
Yes, alcohol consumption in Pakistan has doubled but it has much more than doubled in countries where there is no prohibition. What can be inferred from this?
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