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From: riddle@ut-sally.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.legal
Subject: Re: Dumb Booze laws
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Date: Mon, 14-May-84 11:58:04 EDT
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Posted: Mon May 14 11:58:04 1984
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How about Oklahoma, which had prohibition until 1959 (and still would
today, had not a smart anti-prohibition governor realized that the only
way to get the law repealed would be to really enforce it for a
while)?

Nowadays, Oklahoma rules anything except 3.2 beer to be "hard liquor".
That means no wine in grocery stores, no wine to anyone under 21, no
wine in restaurants (because Oklahoma doesn't allow liquor-by-the-drink).

One of the funnier stories coming from Oklahoma happened about seven or
eight years ago.  At that time, women could buy beer at 18, while men
had to be 19.  A college freshman from my home town of Stillwater took
the issue to Federal court, charged sexual discrimination, and won.
The result?  The Oklahoma legislature promptly raised the beer-buying
age for both sexes to 19!

--- Prentiss Riddle ("Aprendiz de todo, maestro de nada.")
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