Moves to limit alcohol use

Thursday, 01 April 2010 13:42

Moves are afoot to limit the use of alcohol in the country. JHU MP Ven. Attureliye Rathana Thera said that they would bring a proposal to limit the alcohol content in drinks to 20 percent and later gradually reduce it to 15 percent. (YP)

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-8+42#Guest2010-04-01 14:00

Good move. Now the younger generation & ladies can also enjoy a nice drink :D

-7+53#Guest2010-04-01 14:01

BANA TALKING - Leader of the JHU Parliamentary Group has different views..

-4+46#Guest2010-04-01 14:04

Jayaweva Beer co. and kasippu mudalali's

-7+68#Guest2010-04-01 14:08

I think people should be given the choice to decide and they should have variety in the market rather than let someone else decide.

-32+3#Guest2010-04-01 14:16

Very good!

-2+27#Guest2010-04-01 14:18

JHU !! why only limit? Doesn't the religion say that it is prohibited? are you saying 20% Alcohol is allowed in the religion? heheheheheeeee..anything for a few votes ha?

-0+42#Guest2010-04-01 14:23

our people will find a alernate solution for this, may be a new way of mixing it up to increase the kick :)

-4+88#Guest2010-04-01 14:27

Opps, then people who drinks one bottle have to drink 2. Profit maximization for alchol companies. Find any 3rd hand on this

-0+17#Guest2010-04-01 15:26

Totally agree with Chathura W, this is just to win the votes of some desperate ladies, who are so against alcohol due to personal issues.

-1+5#Guest2010-04-02 11:55

Yeah! Besides Champika is quite the Ladies' Man

-0+18#Guest2010-04-01 14:31

I m sorry, I cannot stop laughing.

-0+20#Guest2010-04-01 14:38

Very simple solution.Drink more

-2+17#Guest2010-04-01 14:39

Looks like we have now budhist talibans!

-0+13#Guest2010-04-01 14:39

100% agree with Chathura,, peope who used to drink 1 bottle, with this move,surely drink 2 . And more profit to Alcohol Companies.is not there any other way to limit the alcohol usage?

-0+12#Guest2010-04-01 14:52

Great. We can all become a captive market for Chinese rice wine, whose alcohol content is -- yes -- 15%. What a coincidence!

-1+14#Guest2010-04-01 14:56

what a joke...

-0+14#Guest2010-04-01 14:58

WHAT A BRIGHT IDEA BY THE MONK SO THAT DISTILLERY CAN SELL MORE BOTTLES . MORE REVENUE TO THE GOVERNMENT

-1+10#Guest2010-04-01 15:01

Fools. Double the quantity of 15% and get 30%.

-2+17#Guest2010-04-01 15:03

Is this how Lord BUDDA taught Buddism. A Bikku says that Alcohol can be consumed a little.

-2+8#Guest2010-04-01 15:08

why limit cant stop full???

-0+10#Guest2010-04-01 15:14

When you put a bar (not the drinking kind) on anything it gets sweeter. So people will find means and ways of getting what is banned. Best is to let the people decide. Not ban them.

-0+13#Guest2010-04-01 15:16

Please reduce the thuggery level to 20% and then to 0% before talking of other levels. By the way, 20% marked on the label means 40% alcohol.

-2+16#Guest2010-04-01 15:17

In future Sri Lanka will be the Buddhist Saudi Arabia.

-0+10#Guest2010-04-01 15:18

Then they will use Kasippu.

-1+13#Guest2010-04-01 15:22

budhism is not about fundamentalism, its about democracy and choice. These bhikkus should go out there preach good bana make people understand not try to force.

-28+2#Guest2010-04-01 15:30

Don't look negative. Overall alcohol consumption has decreased in past few years and cigaratte usage is even lesser. So be positive on this move.

-0+6#Guest2010-04-02 16:20

Duh... which planet R U from?

-1+15#Guest2010-04-01 15:33

stupidity at its best.. as if the country does not have any other problem.

-0+10#Guest2010-04-01 15:44

first make sure that our so called leaders dont get drunk everyday....

then you can think about the people...

-0+16#Guest2010-04-01 15:45

I thought Helaurumaya is dead against alcohol. I also thought they strictly observe the fifth precept. We may have revise the fifth precept, any ideas?????

-0+1#Guest2010-04-03 03:53

I think they interpret "majjapama" as "niyama pramanaya." (As per JHU, Ellawala Medhananda's interpretation.)

-0+13#Guest2010-04-01 15:49

So, you guys preach Buddhism and still approve the intoxicant. You never want to ban it altogether. I just wonder..Is this what load Buddha preached?

-0+11#Guest2010-04-01 15:50

stupid and impractical. all whiskies and vodkas will have to be banned then.

-1+7#Guest2010-04-01 16:03

Oh no!! Please no!!!

-0+12#Guest2010-04-01 16:09

Is this an April Fools Joke?? What ever it is i guess the joke is on the people...

-1+12#Guest2010-04-01 16:22

This is against the teachings of Lord Buddha. why don't you try to ban the consumption of alcohol which is all against budhism. our hamuduruwo should be sent back to the dhaham pasala once again.

-0+9#Guest2010-04-01 16:27

This will certainly increase sales for the Alcohol companies - as consumers will look at consuming more to gain same "kick"

-0+9#Guest2010-04-01 16:31

PROMOTION OF " KASSIPPU "

-0+8#Guest2010-04-01 16:35

what do these prilates know about alcohol???

-0+8#Guest2010-04-01 16:40

THE MOVE SHOULD COME FROM THE TOP FROM THE POLITICOS AND THIER GOONS

-0+8#Guest2010-04-01 16:51

"SUBAANAGEATH VEWA"--kASSIPU MUDALALI

-0+8#Guest2010-04-01 16:57

I thought this reduced concentrations were already there. They are called the Beer!

-0+7#Guest2010-04-01 16:57

You mean you waited all these years!!!! Why???

-0+8#Guest2010-04-01 17:11

The only way to handle this government's madness was to get drunk! So u really dont notice the state of this country. Now what do we do?

-1+12#Guest2010-04-01 17:30

I'll start Home Brewing !.

-2+8#Guest2010-04-01 17:31

Hurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrah !. Jayawewa !.

-0+7#Guest2010-04-01 18:01

What different can that make? It will only increase the consumption.

-0+8#Guest2010-04-01 18:07

The local Drug Barons like "you know who" must be funding his election campaign.

-0+9#Guest2010-04-01 18:18

another election gimmick in the form of alcohol. Jaya wewa and Suba Anagathayak

-0+6#Guest2010-04-01 18:31

Good move, this will affect some in robes too.Also must introduce laws to reduce the sex drive of people to control the population increase and sex related crimes.

-1+9#Guest2010-04-01 18:32

APRIL FOOL JOKE!!!!!

-0+8#Guest2010-04-01 18:35

Why can't they say things are more sensible,There are more burning issues to be addressed. Just plain stupidty.

-0+8#Guest2010-04-01 18:38

Soulld all Sri lankans be toilet trained too by JHU?

-0+6#Guest2010-04-01 18:41

How about a law to limit the stupidity, greed and gullibility of monks.

-0+6#Guest2010-04-01 19:32

You won,t get any support from the parlimentarians.
Try something else for publicity.

-0+6#Guest2010-04-01 20:07

If this happens, I'm surely going to miss the Old Reserve :(

-1+9#Guest2010-04-01 20:44

this is all rubbish!!!! Looks like the Taleban is not restricted to the Muslims. Whats next, Women are not allowed to work????? Get serious JHU... Bunch of Jokers

-0+6#Guest2010-04-01 22:41

What a joke! As if they will get a single vote for this.

-0+8#Guest2010-04-01 23:05

Looking at their faces, perhaps they each had a 'half glass' of alcohol ...

-1+14#Guest2010-04-02 00:07

This is to support their 'boss' Chakravarti, who said that serving a 'little' liquor by the President, at Temple Trees, was quite OK. Wonder if these so called 'monks' have misunderstood the relevant 'sil padaya,' which says 'sura meraya majja pama' etc., with 'majja pama' being (wrongly) interpreted as 'mada pamanin.' This is why, in Sri Lanka, there is a saying that "when you want to eat it, even a 'kabaragoya' becomes a 'thalagoya.'" Mere hypocrites, in the guise of monks.

-3+6#Guest2010-04-02 12:00

its racist buddhist extremists like the JHU that brings this country a bad name

-0+3#Guest2010-04-02 18:34

This is bullshit. Ratne and Medananda have lost their credibility and the robes.

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