I live in New York State and recently our governor changed the liquor purchase time from 8a-8p to 10a-10p. You can buy beer from convenience stores at 8am-3am on Sundays like every other day but liquor is different. My question is why? Why is there a cutoff time?
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These laws date back to pre-prohibition and the Temperance Movement. Alcoholism (and the associated problems like domestic violence) was a major problem in the US in the 19th century. On average Americans drank up to 7 gallons (26.5 liters) of alcohol annually, compared to 2 gallons (7.6 liters) of modern Americans.
To combat alcoholism, many towns enacted legal restrictions on when and where alcohol could be purchased. In most cases these “blue laws”, as they came to be known, simply were never repealed, even after the 18th Amendment was repealed.
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