It's looking good for Indiana.

Also, keep in mind Marion country liquor store owners had to pay $100,000 to $200,000 for their licensure while groceries only have to pay around $3,000. That's another big reason that liquor store owners want a level playing field.

 

That seems like an issue the lobbying arm should have addressed.

 

Meanwhile folks can grow and have 2oz of marijuana in DC and I'm trying to buy beer on Sunday. (Stolen from twitter)

 

One of the things i hated so much when I was in Lafayette for 5 years...

Back to Michigan and back to happy. Grocery stores that sell on sundays AND cold beer exist, and so do tons of liquor stores. They can coexist...

I remember when we moved there, the day we moved, went to meijer to get some food items, asked the guy "where's the cold beer section," a must for the rest of the moving, and the response was they don't have one. I thought to myself "dear god, what have i done..."

 

Not at all really, it's actually a step backwards in certain regards. Requiring isolation of all alcoholic beverages and all liquor to be held behind a counter is just silly and would require unneeded renovations for hundreds of retailers. If we really want to save the children from the evils of alcohol, continuing to push the forbidden fruit scenario (been working wonderfully for years, I know), instead of teaching kids to be around it and use it responsibly, just doesn't make sense.

It appears the grip the liquor store lobby has on these guys is quite strong, it's a strange dynamic that is basically a microcosm of all that is wrong with our political system. Especially when you create a state where one political ideology has complete control over about everything, you tend to find their supporters getting pretty much everything they want regardless of what most common sense people would want.

Why not write a bill that basically says, "allow retail Sunday sales of alcohol, yes or no"? All the other regulations are simply set up to continue to protect a group of retailers. It's become (and has always been quite frankly) an accepted and normal way of operation for lawmakers to pass laws to help businesses, when I could have sworn I learned somewhere way back then that our government was set up to represent the people...oh crap, I'm sounding like a TP member now...I better go relax and have a beer.

Looks like the problem here is the discrepancy in licensing costs. If that's really an issue, maybe addressing that rather than coming up with a bunch of other BS to try to level the playing field would be a better solution.

I can't wait until the national movement really takes hold and Indiana is one of, if not the last, to adopt a common sense approach to legalization. It will be interesting when the realities of potential state revenue start to become apparent (the only reason it will even possibly be considered) to those controlled by people who will fight tooth and nail to never let it happen.

 

Surely the farm land here could be put to better use....