[UA] Picking on dipsomancers

[S. Ben Melhuish]

>>Some areas do not sell alcohol on Sundays.  I imagine
>>boozehounds avoid them.  I know that Missouri has repealed
>>that blue law.
>
>Jersey's not too bad.  But in Pennsylvania you can only buy hard liquor at 
>state owned stores, and they are not open on Sundays.  Beer distributors 
>have slightly more flexible hours, but as a non-beer drinker I am unsure 
>whether they are open on Sundays.

Some west-coast data points for GMs running games set out here:

Washington state's liquor laws are pretty inconvenient. Beer and wine are 
available at grocery stores, in general 24x7, though the state leans on 
certain stores in high-booze-consumption areas to "voluntarily" cease sales 
overnight (e.g. near colleges -- I'm thinking specifically of the 
"crack-house Safeway" in the University District, if any Seattle 
list-readers know what I'm talking about). Hard liquor is only available in 
state-run stores, which close by 9:p most nights and all day Sunday, and 
which slap a 30% state liquor tax on the price.

I haven't bought booze in Oregon recently, but it's pretty similar to 
Washington.

California, on the other hand, allows hard liquor sales in 24x7 grocery 
stores. One thing I noticed while visiting recently is that they have 
little "locks" attached to the bottles (at least in the one store I went 
to), so that you can't walk in the store, open a bottle, and take a swig. 
Of course, a desperate dipsomancer could always break open a bottle, or 
slice it open if it's one of those "convenient unbreakable" plastic ones.

-- Sben

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