More lunacy in California: An award-winning adaptation of Little Red Riding Hood was withdrawn from a recommended reading list by the school board in Culver City, California, simply because the heroine had included a bottle of wine in the basket she brought to her grandmother. 8
COLORADO
Colorado law requires that wine be sold in containers of at least 24 ounces and spirits in containers at least a fifth of a gallon. But, at the same time, it also decrees that no alcohol beverage can be stored in hotel minibars in anything larger than miniature containers. 9 Ward Churchill must be teaching logic now.
CONNECTICUT
Connecticut is the only state in the northeast that hasn’t yet abolished Colonial-era Blue Laws prohibiting the sale of alcohol beverages on Sundays. 10
In addition, druggists in Connecticut must pay $400.00 each year for a license in order to use alcohol in compounding prescriptions. 11 Perhaps that’s why medications are so expensive in the state.
DELAWARE
A traveler through the Delaware Valley in 1753 compiled a list of the drinks he encountered; all but three of the 48 contained alcohol. 12
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
The District of Columbia has decriminalized underage drinking, making consumption of alcohol by those under age 21 a civil rather than criminal offense. Offenders will no longer be arrested and carry a criminal record for life.
The new legislation was passed because, although underage drinking had been decriminalized in 1997, police had continued to arrest young people for what was no longer a crime.
Neighboring Maryland has also decriminalized possession and consumption of alcohol by those under the age of 21. 13
FLORIDA
Don't plan on using any of the celebratory Champagne bottle sizes known as Methuselahs, Salamanazars, Balthazars or Nebuchadnezzars. These very traditional Champagne bottle sizes are all illegal in Florida. 14
GEORGIA
Georgia's Fulton County Superior Court Judge Marvin Arrington has handed down a decision calling the city of Atlanta's and the state of Georgia's ordinances against Sunday bar openings unconstitutional. 15
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