Reader comments: Public gives panel earful on liquor laws
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Craig | 6:51 p.m. Sept. 29, 2008
Travelers come to our wonderful state for more reasons than an easy place to get drunk. Many other areas especially in the south have starnger laws. If the most beautiful canyons and mountains along with great skiing does not bring them in: an easy place to become intoxicated will not. I have been hit by a drunk driver before. The fear never leaves you. People can still go get a drink or have one with their meal. Please do not listen to a governer and the special intrest liquor industry by making Utah liquor laws loose.
tobiasrex | 9:21 p.m. Sept. 29, 2008
Questions: Why can't we buy Bud, Hamm's, Rolling Rock, Schlitz. Grain Belt and other traditional American strong beers in Utah? Why are we punished with 3.2 Bud and not the stronger beverage? Why don't the liquor stores stock these traditional brands of beer? Why do I have to go to Idaho, Nevada, Wyoming to get good Bud or other good American beers?
Please don't tell me that the 3.2 stuff sold in grocery stores is beer. It isn't. It's watered-down wee-wee.
Please don't tell me that the 3.2 stuff sold in grocery stores is beer. It isn't. It's watered-down wee-wee.
dave | 9:33 p.m. Sept. 29, 2008
Craig, It there any legitimate (not hysterical) reason I cannot have fine wine shipped directly to my house? Assuming that the recipient is over 21.
That id=s one law that needs to be changed.
That id=s one law that needs to be changed.
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uncannygunman | 11:14 p.m. Sept. 29, 2008
Fix it for Utahns or don't fix it at all. To heck with the tourists.
wse | 11:19 p.m. Sept. 29, 2008
It's simple-the liquor interests will claim easier access to alcohol will mean more tourist dollars. Those who want to get a drink will get one (or more, regardless of the laws or consequences).
Bottom line: more money will exchange hands which will line the pockets or a very, very few people, and the rest of us will have to pay for increased paramedic and police services, increased number of dockets for the courts, and endure more broken homes.
More alcohol consumption = more problems.
Bottom line: more money will exchange hands which will line the pockets or a very, very few people, and the rest of us will have to pay for increased paramedic and police services, increased number of dockets for the courts, and endure more broken homes.
More alcohol consumption = more problems.
C4mackk | 2:30 p.m. Sept. 30, 2008
Last time I checked the law you still have to be 21 to drink. How does doing away with private clubs or having a curtain between alcohol and the rest of the resturaunt promote under age drinking?
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