It seems to me that there are just too many negative things associated with banning alcohol and smoking from the chapter house. Right now, the biggest problem for my chapter is dealing with the people who break the rules and continue to drink and even smoke pot inside the chapter house. Nearly everyone drinks inside the house, so what's the point of having a rule like that? When the time finally comes to punish those who are breaking the no-alcohol rule, these members retaliate by threatening to quit the house. So this policy hurts our membership in more ways than one.
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