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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Prohibition ended and alcohol is legal to purchase and drink. It’s generally recognized that even if you think alcohol is bad, prohibition was a bad policy that just created a thriving black market, so no one is really eager to go back to that. But that doesn’t mean that it should be *easy* to purchase and drink. Adding restrictions, even ones not based on any good objective reason, will decrease the amount people drink. So it’s a compromise.
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