Pennsylvania Has Made It Both Difficult and Dangerous to Buy Liquor
The state has shut down all liquor stores, leading customers to crowd into retailers across the border.
The state has shut down all liquor stores, leading customers to crowd into retailers across the border.
Rules designed to keep alcohol safe for children are slowing down production of a product that’s in short supply.
Takeout and delivery orders are the only thing keeping the state's 115 craft breweries afloat during the coronavirus outbreak.
Make this incredible service to America permanently legal.
American whisky and wine drinkers are being punished for trying to amicably trade what they have for what they want.
Coronavirus misinformation is spreading faster than the disease itself.
Whisky has become collateral damage in a long-running spat between the U.S. and the E.U. over subsidies to airplane manufacturers.
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A 100 percent tariff on European wines could all but wipe out the industry.
While the issue is far from settled, a decline in Canadian beer sales and a drop in binge drinking among college students reinforce the case for a substitution effect.
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Independent booze retailers are trying to stifle competition using arguments from Prohibition.
Confusing regulations put well-run businesses at the mercy of bureaucratic brutes.
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Remnants of Prohibition-era policies continue to frustrate brewers.
Bad laws can cause problems long after they've been passed and forgotten.
This is bending the Lanham Act until it nearly breaks
Policies aimed at curtailing the harms caused by substance abuse may instead magnify those harms.
For too long, state lawmakers have played favorites with booze laws. Will they finally let voters decide where they can buy?
Attempts to centrally plan an economy ruin both civic life and life's pleasures.
What's in a name? Money, apparently.
Castle Danger Brewing is the latest of the state's craft breweries to be victimized by a law that forbids all but the smallest operations from selling growlers on location.
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The state's heavily regulated restaurant industry thinks beer gardens have it too easy
Karaoke and beer? No. Karaoke, pool, and beer? OK!
The conservative justice would have permitted a nakedly anti-competitive regulation.
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Short of rescinding ridiculous liquor laws, the best way to deal with such silly restrictions is to ignore them.
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Obituaries for the benefits of free markets are as numerous as they are wrongheaded.
It's hard to undo decades of bad policy with a single bill
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The craft beer industry can only go as far as lawmakers will allow.
A few more drinks for AOC's "Cocktails for the Revolution" menu.