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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I don’t know about the specific status on New York, that’s be better asked directly to your elected representatives or to other New Yorkers, however there’s multitude of reasons there are legal restrictions on the sale of alcohol at specific moments and times.
Usually, alcohol is banned at specific times when intoxicated people are known to be more dangerous, to themselves and others. For example, in the days leading to holidays that have people taking the road, alcohol can be restricted because it’d increase traffic accidents.
Some places also restrict the sale of alcohol during events in which intoxication could cause trouble, for example, around elections. You don’t want someone drunk near voting booths or discussing politics lest the alcohol remove their inhibitions and cause them to makes themselves do stupid things.
Some countries responsibilise alcohol sellers for the actions of drunk people, if they could have prevented them from being to drunk by abstaining from selling them alcohol. Think a client is bit too drunk and maybe acting like an arse but the bartender keeps pouring in the, it could lead to establishments creating rules about refusing to serve drunk people – also those people are bad for business.
And then there specific bans on alcohol at certain times. As some other people have mentioned, it could be due to religious restrictions particular to Americans, but in many countries it’s because those hours are peak hours for drunk people to cause problems. By restricting the sale of alcohol, you reduce the number of drunk people at those sensitive times, decreasing the number occurrences.
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