Proposing A New Standard Alcohol Drinks Licensing Policy

Please Note: - This article has been revised, updated and put forward newly in this post.

Here under the ‘Drunk Driving Root-Cause’ perspective I propose: ‘a new standard alcohol drinks licensing policy. It is basically aimed to root-out alcohol(ism) problems most importantly the drunk driving/accidents!

To begin with, all those alcohol(ism) problem causing high-alcohol drinks, i.e. the standard alcohol drinks having more than 5% alcohol should be banned. On the other hand the alcohol drinks having around and below 2% alcohol should be promoted under the license as “safe” standard alcohol drinks for the public consumption.

In this regard first of all the extremely high alcohol content distilled spirits beverages that generally contains around average 40% alcohol should be totally banned for the public consumption.

Secondly, wines may be licensed to public consumption (this would save the wine industry also it is to outwit the alcohol bootlegging mafia). Under the strict rule that none of it should contain more than 5% alcohol content. By the way all the wines containing more than 2% alcohol should be considered still potentially dangerous alcohol drinks (as they can still potentially cause alcohol(ism) problems) therefore taxed twice than the wines containing 2% and below alcohol. However in my opinion in the absent extremely high alcohol content (distilled spirits and high wine) drinks the demand for this high-alcohol(5%) wine would be quite high and its market will thrive.

Thirdly, the beers or any other drinks should not contain more than 2% alcohol content. However as I mentioned before it should be promoted by giving it a grand tax exemption. So a unit that contains a standard alcohol drink (10 to 13 grams Of pure alcohol) in the low-alcohol (2% or less, v/v) beer should cost two times less than the same amount in the high-alcohol wine (above 2% v/v. alcohol). This is to mainly encourage people towards opting for low-alcohol drinks in which alcohol becomes far more cheaper (and would be ideally a testing grounds for alcohol research) to buy than in the high-alcohol drinks!

Now the main question is whether this new alcohol drinks licensing policy would be able to basically root-out alcohol(ism) including the drunk driving/accidents problems? For its appropriate answer please read my previous blog post titled “LADs Success In DUI Prevention: Is A Premature Question” in < http://alcohol-research-misconduct.blogspot.com/2008/01/lads-success-in-dui-prevention-is.html >.

Most important of all in this subject mater read the following papers provided in the links given below.

http://alcohol-research-misconduct.blogspot.com/2008/01/alcoholics-curewell-in-essence.html
http://alcohol-research-misconduct.blogspot.com/2008/01/alcohol-research-misconductcause-drunk.html
http://alcohol-research-misconduct.blogspot.com/2008/01/alcohol-prohibition-mission-failure.html
http://alcohol-research-misconduct.blogspot.com/2008/01/standard-alcohol-drinks-authorities.html
http://alcohol-research-misconduct.blogspot.com/2008/01/alcohol-drinking-is-it-matter-of-choice.html
http://alcohol-research-misconduct.blogspot.com/2008/01/alcohol-bosses-real-culprits-behind.html
http://alcohol-research-misconduct.blogspot.com/2008/01/why-driving-with-high-bac-is-wrong.html

Valerian Texeira
Alcoholics Curewell