Proposing A New Standard Alcohol Drinks Licensing Policy

This is only my suggestion (not a contention or demand) under my DUI Drunk Driving: Root Cause and its prevention perspective. Here I propose: ‘a new standard alcohol drinks licensing policy.

First of all the “distilled spirits” high alcohol drinks should be totally banned for the public consumption in general. However there can be some exemption reserved for some special occasions. Otherwise none of the alcohol drinks licensed for the public consumption in general should contain above 5% alcohol content.

Secondly, wines may be licensed to public consumption Under the strict rule that none of it should contain above 5% alcohol content (This on the one hand save the wine industry also it is to outwit the alcohol bootlegging mafia). By the way all the wines containing above 2% should be taxed twice than the wines containing 2% or less alcohol. However in my opinion in the in the absent of distilled spirits the market for the high-alcohol(5%) content wine will thrive so the demand for it still be huge.

Thirdly, the beers or any other drinks should not contain more than 2% alcohol content. However as I mentioned before it should be given a grand tax exemption. So a unit that contains one alcohol drink in the low-alcohol (2% or less) beer should cost two times less than the same amount of alcohol in the high alcohol content wine. (5 to 2% alcohol). This mainly to encourage people towards drinking these low alcohol drinks and also to see whether people still consume overall the same excessive amount of alcohol (as the authorities used to claim all these years), which they used to do when the high alcohol drinks were made available.

Nevertheless I do not claim that this new standard alcohol drinks licensing policy will completely or substantially prevent or remove the drunk driving accidents. In this regard please read my previous blog post titled: “LADs Success In DUI Prevention: Is A Premature Question”. Perhaps one need to ban any alcohol drinks that contains above 2% alcohol, still perhaps the alcohol DUI accidents may continue!

Nevertheless, given the existing alcohol epidemiological research evidences in this matter, this ‘New Standard Alcohol Drink Licensing Policy’ more likely to substantially to prevent the drunk driving accidents than not!

Vallab
Alcoholics Curewell.