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US Politics 12w

big_al_the_riddler

 Genuine question: why is it illegal to drink on the street? Like, if you can chain smoke cigarettes out doors, why can’t I just sip a beer as I talk a walk through my downtown? One of the weirdest laws that most places follow imo
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Anonymous 12w

I think it’s for the same reason you can’t smoke weed in a non-designated public area. Probably just to avoid public intoxication

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Anonymous 12w

Cigarette are not behavior altering drugs. It’s just chemicals. It’s illegal to drink in public because people will get drunk in public and then become dangerous to people and themselves and take resources away. So instead of banning being drunk in public they banned drinking because it’s easier to police people getting drunk than it is to police people already drunk.

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 12w

I suppose I understand that logic but like, the existence of bars doesn’t do much at all to halt someone getting drunk and then going out and about around town intoxicated. All you’re doing is localizing where the intoxication is happening to a particular place. Which, yeah, I can see how that helps police drunkenness, but it’s not illegal to be publicly intoxicated in general to begin with lol

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Anonymous replying to -> big_al_the_riddler 12w

Or at the very least, public intoxication is rarely enforced unless someone is starting trouble. No one is arresting the friend group of happy 20 somethings stumbling across downtown, laughing and smiling and drunk off their asses. Idk, whole thing seems marginally beneficial to me.

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Anonymous replying to -> big_al_the_riddler 12w

What do you mean it’s not illegal to be publicly intoxicated? I’m 100% sure that’s a crime in every state

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Anonymous replying to -> big_al_the_riddler 12w

Okay, your follow up was needed because it is definitely illegal lol. But yeah, not really enforced. It’s kinda like how seatbelt laws are in a lot of states. You won’t get pulled over for it, but it will get added on if you’re pulled over for something else

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 12w

Hell, in some towns it may as well not even be a law because it’s NEVER enforced. In the last town I lived in while I was at university, I could just smoke a joint while walking past a patrol car and they wouldn’t bat an eye lmao

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