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> Amazon UK ships alcohol, hopefully US will too one day.

You can thank the Progressive Era[1] for giving the US Prohibition[2], the legacy of which is the insanity of present-day US drug and alcohol laws.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_Era [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prohibition_in_the_United_Stat...

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Yes, that is a whole topic in itself. My sister-in-law lives in Utah where not only do you have to buy all alcohol from the state owned stores, the state waters down all alcohol over a certain ABV. It makes her very easy to shop for on the holidays - grab some bottles of the good stuff from another state on the drive over, but still crazy stuff like that still happens in this age.

Yeah I saw some dumb laws in Colorado when visiting. I think it was just the grocery stores with the 3% stuff. So ridiculous. Looks like Colorado allowed > 3.2% in grocery stores starting in 2019. [1] Not too long ago you couldn't buy beer in Indiana on Sunday. Archaic.

[1] https://www.5280.com/2019/10/are-grocery-store-beer-sales-ki...

Yup, I spend a lot of time in Utah.

And what your sister is doing is actually illegal in Utah, but also largely unenforced.

Which is also another topic -- too many laws, most of which aren't enforced, and need to go away.

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