Stricter controls on alcohol consumption will be enforced - Thai Health Min

[Spidey]

8 hours ago, Hayduke said:

 

Everybody will be required to finish the drink in front of them before they'll be allowed to order another one.

 

 

I wish. Service staff bottle shakers are a constant pain in bars. Lifting your bottle up and saying "You finnit?" really gets on my wick.

[The traveler]

Good luck with that ???????? when I was a teenager 13 years old we drank beer and other things, we bought it from the grocery stores or smugglers, no problem at all, if people want drink let them drink, if they shit in their own pants let them feel the consequences...

 

cannabis is better for humans, don’t make people stupid..

[Mad mick]

[Mad mick]

[Wiggy]

I don't know what all the fuss is about. I only have one glass of wine per day.

 

 

 

 

 

[Wiggy]

15 hours ago, Pedrogaz said:

As an old man there are a few things I have realised over my lifetime. One of them is that laws that try to evade nature never succeed in the long term. Young people want to drink and making it illegal to consume, or to buy, alcohol  will never succeed. It will fail for the same reason that drug laws fail. It is adolescent human nature to want to experiment with 'adult' things....they want to drive fast, they want to drink beer, they want to smoke cigarettes or yaba and they want to have sex. Condemning or banning these activities will have no effect but to push the problem underground and young people will pursue these activities  if allowed any freedom at all in their lives. Old people and lawmakers should get over this.

 

Parents, lawmakers and law enforcers need to find a way to channel the passion of young people for what they perceive as 'adventure'. Is it as easy as passing laws banning stuff? No, it is not easy it requires thought, creative ideas and policy making....the very things our lawmakers lack (and are trying to squeeze out of young people in school with there stupid policies).

Well said.

 

In my youth I always pushed the boundaries and when something was forbidden by my parents, or even illegal, it made it more risque and/or mysterious, so I wanted to do/try it more. Nothing really bad, but just 'fun' things, like you have eluded to. 

[Peterw42]

5 minutes ago, Wiggy said:

Well said.

 

In my youth I always pushed the boundaries and when something was forbidden by my parents, or even illegal, it made it more risque and/or mysterious, so I wanted to do/try it more. Nothing really bad, but just 'fun' things, like you have eluded to. 

There are studies that say the same about plain packaging of cigarettes, as you say it becomes desirable to kids because of its mystery etc. limit supply on anything and demand increases.

[Pilotman]

17 hours ago, Redline said:

It looks like Thailand has taken on the Puritan playbook 

Only in their own minds.   They have no intention of enforcing it. 

[balo]

The Ministry of Silly Ideas will come up with another brilliant suggestion next week. 

 

[Spidey]

I'd rather have a full bottle in front of me than a full frontal lobotomy.

[Sir Dude]

Ahhhh, the Ministry of Grand Plans & Lofty Ideas at it again.

[zzaa09]

51 minutes ago, Sir Dude said:

Ahhhh, the Ministry of Grand Plans & Lofty Ideas at it again.

They promote this a lot. 

Enacted, yet never abides by the reasoned population. 

 

Best to be ignored.

[natway09]

The Ministry of Public Health needs to have a long look at itself

It needs an operation ,,, not a band aid !!!!

Start by banning  the manufacture of that bloody Killer Lao Khao, stop selling alcohol at 7/11's

(only licensed bottle shops & supermarkets (which can sell beer & wine ONLY)) which they have done in Indonesia following the 

Australia pattern for the selling of alcohol & is helping.

I know I am stretching things a bit here but how about riding a motorbike requiring a proper helmet,,,,,,,,, 555

[ukrules]

25 minutes ago, natway09 said:

only licensed bottle shops & supermarkets

A license is already required to sell alcohol. It take about 10 minutes to get one at the local municipal building, I think it costs about 1000 Baht a year.

 

Strangely enough they all expire at the end of the year (Dec 31) so everyone is unlicensed for the first few days of any new year due to public holidays and they don't seem to care. The whole country renews the licenses in the first week of January.

 

You also need a separate license to sell cigarettes, again it's just a matter of filling out a form and having it rubber stamped when you pay the fee.

 

[Kwarium]

Yes prohibition works really well...

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And certainly no further measures should be required as they have the carefully researched and highly effective time restrictions on alcohol sales.

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[zzaa09]

Imbibing as we speak. 

Here's to The Ministry of Health and this distinctively fine thread. 

 

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[StayinThailand2much]

On 11/8/2018 at 9:39 AM, DM07 said:

Oooooh...so I am looking forward to all Mom & Pop-shops, asking the 12 year olds, send by their dads for ID!

Or the 7elevens ...or anyone....

Mom&pop shops don't care about restrictions, but will welcome the extra business... ????

[zzaa09]

25 minutes ago, StayinThailand2much said:

Mom&pop shops don't care about restrictions, but will welcome the extra business... ????

Yeah - 

Small local shops don't find it necessary to play these games.

And business continues.

[rickudon]

IF they were serious the only thing which would work at all would be a rationing system. Say you register as an alcoholic and get ration cards for 10 units per week. Shops can only re-order up to the amount of ration cards they return......

 

I hear there is already a contract out on me by a coalition of bars!