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		wastedhours on Sept 20, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Minimum unit pricing may have helped reduce alcoho... > 10am-10pm licensing laws I didn't know this was a thing until going to Edinburgh for the first time a couple of years ago. The queue and item makeup at 9.45 made me see the flaw in this plan quite quickly.

dboreham on Sept 20, 2019 [–]

Ugh. Now it's like England. I didn't know that either but I suppose because I'm old I've not tried to drink after 10pm recently.

makomk on Sept 20, 2019 | [–]

England gave up on the mandatory hard cut-off at 11pm a decade or so ago exactly because it seemed counterproductive.

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