[Sca-cooks] Re: Good scotch

[Elaine Koogler]

As I understand it, it is still illegal.  It has to do with the fact 
that the state controls all of the liquor stores who, at least in 
Maryland, must purchase their wares from state-run warehouses.  No 
alcohol may be sold in a liquor store in Maryland that does not come 
from these warehouses.  As I understand it, the logic behind not 
allowing mail order alcohol, not matter what the rhetoric, is that these 
warehouses would lose money...and the state would lose revenues from 
liquor taxes.  Believe it or not.  I know that Virginia has ABC stores 
that are state controlled, for hard liquor, but wine and beer can be 
purchased in grocery stores.  I'm not sure what the logic is there, 
beyond a loss of tax revenue.  It stinks...but there it is!

Kiri

Susan Fox-Davis wrote:

> Crikeys, didn't anybody tell these people that Prohibition has been 
> over for over 60 years?!  How about private shipping from a regular 
> human being, not from a business?
>
> Selene

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