Wanna know how an alcohol permit used to look like in Kuwait? Check this one out by clicking [Here]
Update: On a related note and from the archives.. Oil, Oil Everywhere, But Not a Drop to Drink
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29 replies on “Kuwait Liqour Permit from 1965”
It looks like it’s limited to Gray, mackenzie& co Ltd. does that mean back then they had monopoly over the market?
what’s with you and alcohol?
It’s the second time he’s mentioned alcohol this week, the other day it was due to an article in the newspaper. What’s the big deal?
By the power god gave me and satan !! I will not allow alcohol to be legal !! .. if you don’t like it you can go to other countries and drink as much as you want !!
May The God be merciful on your souls … to those who drink alcohol
this is from 1965… ie. the past
i know 🙂 ! and i hope that it will never be legal again ! Peace (Y).
So you’re suddenly religious and want to keep liquor illegal, but it’s ok if you go hump your american gf XD? (He’s a friend)
@ Mnfear: I wish you good luck although very soon things are gonna change! Hopefully (for some i suppose) by 3rd quarter 2014 to my guess.
It is 2013, let people decide for themselves if they want to drink for fark sake!
Still this isn’t a pro-alcohol or anti-alcohol post.
Hold on……it was legal????
What suddenly happened to bring about a ban?
Well it could be just a coincidence but it got banned the year i was born…
I was told it got banned after a Saudi prince either was killed in or caused a death in a drunk driving incident, and Kuwait banned ‘the demon liquor’ in solidarity with Saudi. But that could be a rumor – would love to know for sure what the reason was.
Check this old post of mine https://248am.com/mark/interesting/oil-oil-everywhere-but-not-a-drop-to-drink/
@ Mark – great post.
Gray Mackenzie now known as ISS / KMMC where i currently work indeed sold booze from a tiny window located on the ground floor facing the gulf road or sief palace. Big time monoply during those days. Earned Millions i suppose.
In fact alot of our Kuwaiti clients still call our company Gray Mackenzie and not ISS or KMMC for the great times they have had in the past. Not bad ha!!!
Gray Mackenzie/ISS/KMMC or whatever name it is known by in different countries is really none other than the great and infamous East India Company. Monopoly is their hallmark.
indeed it is~!
WHAT?! That’s hilarious, East India had a liquor monopoly in Kuwait, suits them perfectly.
Mark,
What’s your sudden interest of Alcohol in kuwait? Your trip to amsterdam got to you?
It was even written in legible, grammatically correct english! sometimes, as strange as it sounds, I wish I could go back in time.
Grammatically correct English. Don’t get to see that these days.
That’s because the only people speaking English back then were native speakers, it would be a lot harder to get around in Kuwait in the 60s without knowing Arabic.
Alcohol was banned by an act of Parliament, I believe sometime in the 70s.
Alcohol was banned by an act of Parliament in the 1980s
In the 1980’s, the Government did electoral gerrymandering by redistricting voting constituencies to over-represent the Islamists.
In the 1980’s, most Kuwaitis didn’t support Islamsits hence the electoral gerrymandering…
Now all the Islamists have turned against the Government so the monarchy is trying to get rid of them (most Islamists are Saudi dual citizens).
The Government is currently trying to undo its intentional Islamization of Kuwait over the past decades. In the 1970s and 1980s, most Kuwaiti women didn’t wear the hijab.
lol
I would rather have a bottle in forn of me than a frontal labotomy.
kuwait airlines had some alcohol permit before the invasion ….. before the invasion alcohol was available and sold pretty much everywhere but it was kept quiet, they used to warn them or fine them in most cases…. it’s only these 20+ years after the invasion that they started punishing those alcohol dealers severely
….its just a post on the past….its not sold legaly now… so why r people getting offended here. n yea @people who think “wats with Mark n alcohol” ..its just a blog people and hes blogging not advertising or selling…
@Mnfear …people do respect the fact that you do not want or will not let alcohol be legal in this country but….. if you do get a chance …read the daily paper’s n take a look at the nationality of people who get caught for druken driving or even accidents caused due to drunkeness…. Its easy to stop and deport the expat …what you gonna do bout your own…. just a thought no offense.
The Kuwaiti government will legalize alcohol in the 2020’s or 2016-2019