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Posted: 4/27/2014 1:44:23 PM EDT
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the next town east is "dry"
quotes because you just buy beer and take it there no one cares. |
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Posted: 4/27/2014 1:45:33 PM EDT
[#2]
yes, now vaffan culo!
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Posted: 4/27/2014 1:45:53 PM EDT
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Quite a few Alaska native villages are dry. They're dry because alcohol tears their families apart.
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Posted: 4/27/2014 1:46:43 PM EDT
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My grandfather lives in Grayson Co, TX. It's semi-dry. You can buy beer & wine, but no hard liquor. If you bought a "membership car" for a couple of bucks you could drink at restaurants in town.
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Posted: 4/27/2014 1:46:44 PM EDT
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As I remember stories about places in the US wich do not allow ANY kind of alcoholic beverages. Entire cities or counties without alcohol. Do they still exist, and why? I live in one. Fortunately, in NC, a city or town can allow alcoholic beverages in a dry county. |
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Posted: 4/27/2014 1:47:36 PM EDT
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Bell County, Kentucky is a dry county. Do not know why. There are a shit load of counties in KY that are dry. Yep |
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Posted: 4/27/2014 1:48:00 PM EDT
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Dry County here. Legally.
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Posted: 4/27/2014 1:48:12 PM EDT
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Quite a few Alaska native villages are dry. They're dry because alcohol tears their families apart. They do have very good reasons for their policies. |
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Posted: 4/27/2014 1:48:14 PM EDT
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Funny you mention this. PA state store employee union ad in paper today urged PA to keep current system intact for the safety of the children. The ad says that NC had one child per week die in underage drinking related crashes after they privatized. Local 776s ad didn't mention if any NC kids died in underage drinking related crashed before NC privatized their system. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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What I think is really fucked up is that there are still states in this country where you have to buy hard liquor from a state run store at twice the free market price. I don't know what it is about Baptists. They really seem to hate alcohol when they're sober.  Funny you mention this. PA state store employee union ad in paper today urged PA to keep current system intact for the safety of the children. The ad says that NC had one child per week die in underage drinking related crashes after they privatized. Local 776s ad didn't mention if any NC kids died in underage drinking related crashed before NC privatized their system. We still have ABC stores in NC.... |
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Posted: 4/27/2014 1:48:17 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: what sense does it make? in 2014, why can't people buy alcohol? Not a lot of Southern Baptist where you live I'm guessing. |
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Posted: 4/27/2014 1:48:20 PM EDT
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Yep.
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Posted: 4/27/2014 1:49:01 PM EDT
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Quite a few Alaska native villages are dry. They're dry because alcohol tears their families apart. Ah, so punishing the people that can handle their booze, because some can't, is the American way. It really is. 
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Posted: 4/27/2014 1:51:58 PM EDT
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Ah, so punishing the people that can handle their booze, because some can't, is the American way. It really is. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Quite a few Alaska native villages are dry. They're dry because alcohol tears their families apart. Ah, so punishing the people that can handle their booze, because some can't, is the American way. It really is. I don't agree with the laws, but very few to zero of them can handle booze. |
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Posted: 4/27/2014 1:52:00 PM EDT
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Arkansas has a few. When I go to motorcycle rallys down in Jasper, part of the tradition is bringing in alcohol from the wet counties.
I think Kansas might have a few dry counties as well. (Carrie Nation is buried in Belton, MO Cemetery a couple blocks from my house. She was the supporter of the dry laws that went around hacking up bars with a hatchet. Most of the time, if you go look at her gravestone, it's covered in busted beer bottles. Heh...) |
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Posted: 4/27/2014 1:53:09 PM EDT
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I don't agree with the laws, but very few to zero of them can handle booze. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Quite a few Alaska native villages are dry. They're dry because alcohol tears their families apart. Ah, so punishing the people that can handle their booze, because some can't, is the American way. It really is. I don't agree with the laws, but very few to zero of them can handle booze. Many are genetically unable to metabolize alcohol like the rest of us. |
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Posted: 4/27/2014 1:56:41 PM EDT
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Many are genetically unable to metabolize alcohol like the rest of us. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Quite a few Alaska native villages are dry. They're dry because alcohol tears their families apart. Ah, so punishing the people that can handle their booze, because some can't, is the American way. It really is. I don't agree with the laws, but very few to zero of them can handle booze. Many are genetically unable to metabolize alcohol like the rest of us. |
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Posted: 4/27/2014 1:57:06 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Not a lot of Southern Baptist where you live I'm guessing. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: what sense does it make? in 2014, why can't people buy alcohol? Not a lot of Southern Baptist where you live I'm guessing. |
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Posted: 4/27/2014 1:58:19 PM EDT
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Yeah. They exist all over the place.
Why? Religion, unenthusiastic voting base, or stodgy local government.. take your pick. I just got home from Robbinsville, NC. It's located in Graham co. which is dry. It's a tiny little town of ~650 people and is extremely church oriented. Draw your own conclusions. |
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Posted: 4/27/2014 1:59:21 PM EDT
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I don't drink. I made that decision. I didn't want, or need, the government to make that choice for me. If I wanted to drink myself to death, it should be no one's business but mine. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Quite a few Alaska native villages are dry. They're dry because alcohol tears their families apart. Ah, so punishing the people that can handle their booze, because some can't, is the American way. It really is. I don't agree with the laws, but very few to zero of them can handle booze. Many are genetically unable to metabolize alcohol like the rest of us. When they're sober, they don't want to drink either. Even one beer can fuck them up like a hit of crystal for a day or two. So, since it's so powerful and destructive, they, as a village, have a no alcohol policy. |
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Posted: 4/27/2014 2:00:14 PM EDT
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List of dry communities by state...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dry_communities_by_U.S._state I've always found it a bit amusing that Lynchburg TN is a dry county |
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Posted: 4/27/2014 2:01:26 PM EDT
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When they're sober, they don't want to drink either. Even one beer can fuck them up like a hit of crystal for a day or two. So, since it's so powerful and destructive, they, as a village, have a no alcohol policy. And what happens then? They still drink, still get fucked up, and get into legal trouble on top of it. Banning things NEVER has the desired effect. 
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Posted: 4/27/2014 2:06:48 PM EDT
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And what happens then? They still drink, still get fucked up, and get into legal trouble on top of it. Banning things NEVER has the desired effect. http://www.tickld.com/cdn_image_content/17503.jpg Quote HistoryQuoted:
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When they're sober, they don't want to drink either. Even one beer can fuck them up like a hit of crystal for a day or two. So, since it's so powerful and destructive, they, as a village, have a no alcohol policy. And what happens then? They still drink, still get fucked up, and get into legal trouble on top of it. Banning things NEVER has the desired effect. http://www.tickld.com/cdn_image_content/17503.jpg They don't have to live there. They could leave. But that's a worse option than death for them. So they have their ways. It's usually not the natives, the ones getting drunk, that get cocked up by those laws. It's the jackasses running it, the dealers as it were, who run afoul of them, usually whites. It's an enforcement tool, like broken windows and noise violations. |
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Posted: 4/27/2014 2:06:54 PM EDT
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Blount County Alabama
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Posted: 4/27/2014 2:07:11 PM EDT
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Pigeon Forge Tennessee used to be dry. There have been some votes but I'm not sure how far it went. It being the tourist town on the TN side of the Smokey's, with bad traffic, I can see why it was dry for so long. Gatlingburg has booze in the hotels.
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Posted: 4/27/2014 2:07:39 PM EDT
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Personally, I'm not aware of any counties that forbid you from possessing alcohol in your home/property, which is not to say it doesn't exist somewhere.
"Dry" tends to be in degrees. I know you can't buy a bottle of Jack Daniels' in the country where it is made, but you can buy fudge made with it, and other such things in Lynchburg (or could when I was there). My understanding was that spirits couldn't be sold, but wine and beer could. In the same way, there are counties here where you can't buy alcohol on Sunday. I think the main drive is a morality thing, but there is no doubt some cost associated with licensing and regulating alcohol too (though I suspect the revenue far surpasses that cost). Of course, we could just not regulate it, but hey, that's just preposterous.
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Posted: 4/27/2014 2:08:58 PM EDT
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Besides dry counties, still have other messed up laws such as the old "blue laws" here in wet counties in TX. Liquor stores are closed on Sundays and you can't buy beer/wine at other stores until noon on Sunday. Funny thing is there was a movement to overturn the ban on liquor stores being open on Sundays, but many who own liquor stores opposed it as they wanted their Sunday off!
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Posted: 4/27/2014 2:11:08 PM EDT
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They don't have to live there. They could leave. But that's a worse option than death for them. So they have their ways. It's usually not the natives, the ones getting drunk, that get cocked up by those laws. It's the jackasses running it, the dealers as it were, who run afoul of them, usually whites. It's an enforcement tool, like broken windows and noise violations. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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When they're sober, they don't want to drink either. Even one beer can fuck them up like a hit of crystal for a day or two. So, since it's so powerful and destructive, they, as a village, have a no alcohol policy. And what happens then? They still drink, still get fucked up, and get into legal trouble on top of it. Banning things NEVER has the desired effect. http://www.tickld.com/cdn_image_content/17503.jpg They don't have to live there. They could leave. But that's a worse option than death for them. So they have their ways. It's usually not the natives, the ones getting drunk, that get cocked up by those laws. It's the jackasses running it, the dealers as it were, who run afoul of them, usually whites. It's an enforcement tool, like broken windows and noise violations. All laws are just enforcement tools for the most part, if you take the sociopaths that only don't go on murder sprees because they don't want to go to jail out of the equation. |
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Posted: 4/27/2014 2:21:17 PM EDT
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In my local area:
No alcohol sales between 12midnight and 10am every day No alcohol sales on any election day. I don't see very many Southern Baptist down here. |
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Posted: 4/27/2014 2:23:58 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Yeah. They exist all over the place. Why? Religion, unenthusiastic voting base, or stodgy local government.. take your pick. I just got home from Robbinsville, NC. It's located in Graham co. which is dry. It's a tiny little town of ~650 people and is extremely church oriented. Draw your own conclusions. Is the town actually dry, or are there people who drink living there? My observation is that there are always some people who drink just about everywhere. |
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Posted: 4/27/2014 2:25:35 PM EDT
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There is at least one dry county in NC, maybe more. No liquor sales on Sunday state wide. It doesn't matter to me, I keep a stocked cabinet and only rarely drink. I resupply about 2 a year.
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Posted: 4/27/2014 2:26:24 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Personally, I'm not aware of any counties that forbid you from possessing alcohol in your home/property, which is not to say it doesn't exist somewhere.... The Volstead Act didn't prohibit people from possessing or using alcohol in their homes or on their property. |
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Posted: 4/27/2014 2:30:46 PM EDT
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Unless they recently went wet, Cullman Co, AL.
Which I've always found to be weird, considering a high proportion of Germans settled it.
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Posted: 4/27/2014 2:31:47 PM EDT
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My state has three different classifications, dry, wet and limited. 26 dry, 9 wet and 60 limited.
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Posted: 4/27/2014 2:31:51 PM EDT
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I have lived and currently still live in dry counties my whole life.
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Posted: 4/27/2014 2:32:11 PM EDT
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I live in one as we speak, but luckily the small town hear is close to the Indian Res and gots permission to sales the juice 2 months ago..................
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Posted: 4/27/2014 2:35:52 PM EDT
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In some Arkansas counties, yes. The county I live in only recently became "wet."
Before legal liquor sales I could still go to any restaurant and drink beer and/or hard liquor, OR I could drive 10 minutes either North or South to neighboring counties to buy booze. |
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Posted: 4/27/2014 2:36:28 PM EDT
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I live in one. I like it dry.
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Posted: 4/27/2014 2:38:16 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d5/Alcohol_control_in_the_United_States.svg/555px-Alcohol_control_in_the_United_States.svg.png Red=Dry Yellow=Semi-Dry Blue=No restriction/Wet Grey=No data So much for Texas being free. 
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Posted: 4/27/2014 2:38:17 PM EDT
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Last I heard, Calloway County KY was still dry. It's the home of Murray St University.
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Posted: 4/27/2014 2:39:46 PM EDT
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county went wet last year, the churches are working hard to get it rolled back
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Posted: 4/27/2014 2:41:45 PM EDT
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http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d5/Alcohol_control_in_the_United_States.svg/555px-Alcohol_control_in_the_United_States.svg.png Red=Dry Yellow=Semi-Dry Blue=No restriction/Wet Grey=No data Seems like a dubious map to me. I'm from one of those counties in NJ that is yellow. It is not a Semi-dry county... unless their idea of semi-dry is that you can't purchase alcohol after 4am.
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Posted: 4/27/2014 2:43:50 PM EDT
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Yes, thanks Baptists.
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Posted: 4/27/2014 2:45:10 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I don't drink. I made that decision. I didn't want, or need, the government to make that choice for me. If I wanted to drink myself to death, it should be no one's business but mine. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quite a few Alaska native villages are dry. They're dry because alcohol tears their families apart. Ah, so punishing the people that can handle their booze, because some can't, is the American way. It really is. I don't agree with the laws, but very few to zero of them can handle booze. Many are genetically unable to metabolize alcohol like the rest of us. |
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Posted: 4/27/2014 2:47:25 PM EDT
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This. I built dairies in several dry counties in tx. They would send one of the parts runners once a week to another county to buy 50-60 cases of beer and 20 or 30 gallons of liquor to keep the jobsite going for the week.  Quote HistoryQuoted:
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According to Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission, there are still some in Texas 11 Dry Counties This. I built dairies in several dry counties in tx. They would send one of the parts runners once a week to another county to buy 50-60 cases of beer and 20 or 30 gallons of liquor to keep the jobsite going for the week. Damn!!! Are ya hiring???? |
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Posted: 4/27/2014 2:47:55 PM EDT
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I stopped in the one of last ones in TX a few years ago to buy some beer for camping that night....Found some in the next county over that my camping spot was in
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Posted: 4/27/2014 2:48:22 PM EDT
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There is at least one dry county in NC, maybe more. No liquor sales on Sunday state wide. It doesn't matter to me, I keep a stocked cabinet and only rarely drink. I resupply about 2 a year. It should matter. It's an encroachment on freedom. |
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Posted: 4/27/2014 2:49:02 PM EDT
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We got alcohol 5 years ago
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Posted: 4/27/2014 2:49:35 PM EDT
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Same reason you still can't legally buy weed in most places. Moral busybodies who can't just mind their own business and feel the need to constantly try and "improve" others. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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what sense does it make? in 2014, why can't people buy alcohol? Same reason you still can't legally buy weed in most places. Moral busybodies who can't just mind their own business and feel the need to constantly try and "improve" others. Yep, they know what's go for you ya know. |
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Posted: 4/27/2014 2:49:59 PM EDT
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Tate county, MS
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Posted: 4/27/2014 2:51:14 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I don't think you understand the scale of the problem. I don't care if one drink makes them die two days later. Free people should have the choice. |
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