Dim Alcohol Sale Laws

The various states of the Union have some of the wackiest alcohol laws on their books. Some of them are designed to maintain state control, as a Washington Post story noted today. The WaPo article cited Maryland's arcane regulations, which prohibit ordinary citizens from having wine shipped from out-of-state to Maryland residents. These useless statutes only serve to encourage a casual disrespect for the law by ordinary citizens, and there's no point their continuance.

There are real reasons for legitimate laws: controlling the flow of wine across state lines is not one of them.