Saturday, May 21, 2005

Sunday Liquor bill- mixed blessing?

I was just re-reading some information about the bill that abolished the ban (love the way we have to un-ban things to think of them as allowed) on Sunday liquor sales in Kansas.

Attached to this bill was a ban on AWOL - Alcohol Without Liquid, a system of delivering alcohol that doesn't involve the calories or hangover of "traditional" intoxicants. Kansas leads the way in being one of only two states (Colorado is oddly conspicuous as a partner) to ban AWOL.

It shouldn't be surprising that the Kansas wholesale liquor industry (if you can call a whopping two companies and "industry") supported this bill, since it lifted the ban on Sunday sales, and simultaneously banned potential competition.

Gotta love Jacob Sullum's quote that bags on liquor dealers for opposing AWOL:
"people who are in the business of helping us chemically adjust our moods and minds have to pretend they're not."

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