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Tag: liquor law
The Three Mile Limit: Booze on Boats
An obscure bit of international maritime law becomes front page news when the Coast Guard takes on rum runners during Prohibition.
The Whiskey Ring
In an era defined by self-interest, most people could just be paid to look the other way.
A (Very Brief) History of Straight Whiskey
That’d be the legal kind of straight, not the un-iced kind
The 15-Gallon Law: Pack My Box With Five Dozen Liquor Jugs
Dipping a Toe in Lake Prohibition
The “Habitual Drunkard:” Virginia’s Downright Prehistoric Anti-Homeless Law.
I’d like to think that our understanding of substance dependency has evolved, but the law doesn’t always reflect that.
Kentucky’s 80 Different Liquor Licenses
The home of bourbon, and of obscure statutory language
Drive-Thru Daiquiris
Letting the good times roll on through
War Between the Wine States
Sometimes, protecting your own can land you in a Constitutional gray area.
Boozy Trade Wars
Recent aluminum and steel tariffs are affecting the price of your beer. It ain’t the first time.
In the Spirit of the Law 