People do seem to think that
these drug shops would be available as some kind of private enterprise. I would envision it as more the Canadian off-licence model. They have specific outlets owned and regulated directly by the government under a kind of franchise scheme.

People in effect buy their booze from the government through an intermediary.
( Kroney, Tue 17 Aug 2010, 11:36, 1 reply, 16 years ago)

Thats more or less what I was thinking too
It's been suggested before now, but the entire idea of government intervention in such things and the expansion of the state is rather unpopular with the right wing, and most left wing parties know that if they even suggested such a thing it'd be more or less political suicide.
(Fredz A graveyard of hopes, a dump of ambition, Tue 17 Aug 2010, 11:39, Reply)