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Escaping the dry zone

The ban on alcohol has been a tremendous loss to the country in several ways. People here are just as fond of drinking just as people anyone else in the world. When the ban on booze was imposed in 1977, the people who enjoyed having peg or two after a days work were deprived of their pleasure. The revenue generated by the sale of liquor was tremendous, by banning liquor this revenue dried up it went upto countless millions of rupees in today' terms it could several billion rupees annually.
The people who had accepted liquor as their part of their life could not afford the smuggled liquor - many of them choosed to migrate to any place where theycould lead the life that they were accustomed to. Many of them were businessmen who preferred to take their business to some otther country.
Many talented people which included artitst, authors, singers, musicians decided to migrate - the pleasure of drinking was something they missed dearly. The country has lost these people and in their place are people who incredibly stupid and absolutely ignorant, who are neither good for the country and are no good to themselves.
Of course everything in excess id dangerous - but liquor is essential - it does not have the same impact as a soft drink.
Although seemingly attempts are being made to completely remove the ban on liquor, but to announce it would make the mad mullahs screaming, although privately they are biggest boozers of all. The ban on liquor has made people reuslted in consuming variety of moonshine resulting in death or blindness. In the absence of liquor the number of drug addicts soared. If the ban on liquor hand not been imposed, there would not be so many drug addicts.
There a re tremendous hurdles in freeing up the sale of liquor - one of the reasons is the exorbitant taxes whiich makes it impossible for average people to purchase.. Poor people need booze as much as rich people do.but denying them a source of pleasure and celebration for any occasion or achievment is heart-breaking. Everyone wants some wine or beer. It woulld be a wise move to remove all the hurdles on the open sale of liquor.

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