Posted on 10/18/2006 4:16:17 PM PDT by dynachrome
"In other words, the booze is harder to get, but once you have it, the freedom to imbibe, without limit or shame, is greater in Iran than anywhere else on earth. Isfahan, Iran, remains the only city outside the United States where I have found myself blind-drunk at ten in the morning. There is no such thing as non-alcoholic beer in Iran. Forget AA."
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I thought the Russians were the 24/7 drunkards.
According to my ex-girlfriend from Tehran, whiskey and gin are widely popular and sell well on the black market. The small Christian and Jewish communities are also allowed to possess alcohol.
It's true. I once talked to someone who runs a high-end rehab clinic who said a lot of their patients were wealthy Iranians, because there are no facilities there. Another friend, an Armenian whose family used to live in Tehran, and who still has friends back there said that being a drunk isn't seen an an illness, much less a character flaw. It's just funny. Like Otis in Mayberry. She also said Tehran's a big party town, but it's all behind closed doors.
"Christian and Jewish communities are also allowed to possess alcohol"
How do they buy it, if illegal elsewhere?
According to my ex, they are allowed to sell it to eachother, although the importation of alcohol is banned. In essence, it all comes in through the black market.
Clearly in this case religion is not the opiate of the masses, but maybe alcohol is.
So if we the regime there falls, there's going to be one hell of a party!
The drunkest period of American History was prohibition. Gave it the allure of forbidden fruit.
I heard a lot of Saudis, especially their upper-class women, end up in rehab clinics. Drinking is rampant in their country due to boredom & frustration.
if I lived there I would have to stay drunk
Maybe that is why so many of their men have made it with so many goats. So I've heard!
I've also heard that Iran has a massive problem with heroin addiction.
"all comes in through the black market."
Hmmmm. So it is illegal to import, but you can posses. Therefore, you have committed a crime to obtain what you can legally posses or know someone who did. Just another way to keep Christians and Jews in dhimmitude I think.
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