Reply #13: its prohibition & american gutlessness [View All]

[maxsolomon]

no pol wants to be the one to 'go soft' on liquor, or drugs, or crime. kowtowing to the women's temperance league or something. eventually someone has to have the sac to stand up to the liquor control boards. regulating alcohol sales is for scandinavians!

here in washington state, we have state liquor stores (very common), whereas california sells in the grocery. we have taverns where you can't get a mixed drink, just beer & wine, whereas in ohio no one even understand this concept. at least the washington legislature FINALLY got rid of the absurd '50% of your reciepts have to be food if you want to serve a drink' rule.

its the longevity of alcohol blue laws that makes me think marijuana will be illegal till i die (approximately 2050).