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Article: More states make mailing alcohol a felony
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- THE JOURNAL RECORD
- Article date:
- August 21, 1997
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Copyright informationCopyright 1997 The Journal Record. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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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.
Vintage wineries and beer-of-the-month clubs, in fact, argue the
felony laws do nothing but protect powerful wholesalers worried ...
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