The Winter Olympics are coming in February 2010 to Vancouver. This means thousands and thousands of tourist from all over the world, coming from places with varied, but mostly modern liquor laws. Until a recent decision by Vancouver city council, many of the bars and restaurants in the city were required to close by midnight. The new law will allow establishments to remain open to 1 am and 2 am on weekends.
The bar and restaurant owners seem to be in favour of this and so are many citizens, however there are others who say that it will lead to more trouble with public drunkenness.
What do you think? Does extending the times that bars can serve alcohol lead to more trouble with over drinking? Or will it prove to better the city and the Olympic experience?
This just seems like good sense to me. The ciy will be filled with people in a party mood, with plenty of disposable income. Why not let them spend it? Tightly restricting bar hours just encourages binge drinking anyway...
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