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‘We’re not drug dealers’: Brewers, bar owners want advertising ban lifted

Bar owners and liquor entrepreneurs are calling for an end to a longstanding ban on alcohol advertising they think is deeply flawed and misguided.

A week after launching a petition demanding officials revoke the regulatory ban, one of its authors explained why the law, which has been used to prosecute individuals for as little as showing alcohol in photos they post, defies common sense. 

“I don’t understand. I can’t make sense of it,” said Niks Anuman-rajadhon, a bar owner and part of the group rallying against the ban. “Consumers have the rights to know what they buy and importers have the right to explain their products.”

Central to the issue is Section 32 of the Alcohol Beverage Control Act, which bans all advertisement or display, directly or indirectly, of the name or trademark of any alcoholic beverage that ascribes qualities to it or might…

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