[RP TownTalk] Grocery stores- beer and wine sales

[cranky old coot]

Shoppers' Food Warehouse :: "Small, independent grocer"
Must be more meds to make sense of this all.

Of course Rockville is in Montgomery county. Thing are different in 
different counties. Strange but it does at least make a nodding 
acknowledgments of different social norms in different communities. The 
laws sometimes reflect the "norms" from a time long long ago and it 
seems fare fare away.  But keeping laws in sync with changes in "social 
norms" and within the bounds of justest is an art. It seems to me that 
laws controlling the sale of "intoxicating liquors" falls in the same 
realm as blue laws. Rooted in our puritan protestant past this type of 
thing are slow and hard to change. Given relative short political terms 
of office, the effort required to make small incremental changes in the 
law to keep in sync with taste is not often worth the political cost. 
Given issues like the budget and FISA and other alligators in the 
legislative swamp, it is hard to get people excited about boiling this 
little frog.

Must need more drugs meds

COC

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