Prohibition!

[winryweiss]

Today, alcohol prohibition was announced in my country!
I am not kidding.
There is a nasty case of methanol poisoning from adulterate alcohol all around my country (19 deads so far), so every alcoholic beverage above 20% volume is banned.
But still ...
Still ...
A Prohibition!
Even if it is not complete ban of everything alcoholic.
This is ... astonishing beyond believe.

Comments

[slashgoddess80]

Is 21 the legal age to drink there? In my country you can drink once you turn 16!

[winryweiss]

Here, you are officially free to drink and smoke (and hence destroy your health) since you turn 18.

[kadytheredpanda]

Yeah, it's 21. In Japan it's 20 (which is also the legal adult age there).

It used to be 18 here until the 1980s. Evidently one too many kids were getting into drunk accidents so that and road tax regulations forced states to raise the age to 21.