The ban on selling alcohol in the evening is a huge benefit!
In the summer, on weekends, it was simply impossible to sleep with the windows open; the local thugs were shouting, getting drunk, and listening to music in the courtyard.

Ihtiandr's exclamations about an attack on freedom are nonsense. If you are an adult, reasonable person, then keep a bar at home. And if alcohol doesn't stay at home for long and everything that was bought is inevitably drunk, then it's better to give up this business altogether.

But sometimes we feel ashamed of actions committed not only when drunk. What we do when drunk, we would like to do even when sober, but we find the strength to stop ourselves. Alcohol frees us from prejudices, allows us to be who we are for a while, and not blame ourselves for it. Many people are afraid to be themselves, so they are often ashamed after being drunk.

Alcohol is absolutely not suitable for expanding consciousness. It only lowers the bar, but does not show the reasons for the emergence of this very bar, does not give answers to your questions. It masks the problem, but does not solve it.

From my own experience, I can say with absolute certainty that I am always myself, regardless of whether I am drunk or not. And if one day I have to use the cliché excuse "well, I was drunk, alcohol makes a person different, you understand..." - I will stop respecting myself. Because I understand that this is not true. Yesterday's me, completely drunk, is the same me as now.

I think this is an exaggeration. A large amount of alcohol does terrible things to people. It's better to come to Odessa and see for yourself :D