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Article: BROUHAHA OVER MAIL-ORDER BOOZE VINTNERS, BREWERS FIGHT TREND MAKING DIRECT SHIPMENT FELONY.(News/National/International)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
- Article date:
- August 21, 1997
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Byline: Eun-Kyung Kim Associated Press
WASHINGTON -- Glen Parker waited three years on a winery mailing list before he got a rare bottle of Napa Valley chardonnay shipped to his Florida home. His wait for the next bottle could be longer.
Florida is the latest state to make the direct shipment of alcohol - a $1 billion business nationwide - a felony.
Parker calls it ``rather silly for a state that is the principal conduit through which cocaine and other drugs are imported into our country. You'd think they'd have better things to do with their law enforcement,'' says the Boca Raton magazine publisher.
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