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Brickbats

Brickbat: Women's Temperance

Charles Oliver | 1.29.2018 4:00 AM

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Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena has overturned a measure that would have allowed women to buy alcoholic beverages. A 1955 law bans women, but not men, from buying alcohol.

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Charles Oliver is a contributing editor at Reason.

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