That would mean making hard booze harder to get. Stats show that PEI has by far the highest intake of hard alcohol compared to beer and wine. Quebec is the total opposite.

In Quebec beer and wine can be found in depaneurs (stores) on every corner. But if you want vodka or whiskey you need to know where to go.

In a large study released by BMJ Open last week, the stats show that hard alcohol tends to trigger violent reactions in people. Whereas beer and wine made people more mellow.

So, step one. Make hard booze harder to get.

Step two. Educate people (especially young people) on the dangers of drinking. Remove the taboo that surrounds alcohol today so that people start to normalize it and understand how bad copious amounts of it is to your body.

Step three. Lower the legal drinking age to 18. That will expand the market to help pay for the educational promos that are needed. But it will also start treating people like adults. Even our young adults.

Step four. Relax the public drinking rules. In Montreal it's totally kosher to drink wine in a park as long as your eating food. Rarely are there problems. Why not have the same on PEI. It will boost tourism and bring more people outside.

Step five. Public transit is needed across the Island. It's a huge, underlying problem on the Island, but P.E.I. is a car culture. However daunting it might be, that needs to be addressed. Because of it drinking and driving will always be an issue--as well as other problems not related to this subject.

Step six. Move the cut-off time for serving alcohol to 3:00am, not 2:00. It shouldn't be a race for people to get drunk before the timer rings. That encourages binge drinking. And again, it would be a boost to tourism and the economy.

It can't be more clear that large amounts of booze is bad for us. Especially binge drinking. But drinking isn't going anyway. So we need to talk about some fundamental problems.

We need to remove the veil surrounding alcohol, learn about its dangers, and learn how to consumer it in moderation.

Like...well, adults.