A decision by the US 6th Circuit Court of Appeals means Kentucky will return to a law written in 1938 prohibiting sale of wine and spirits at grocery stores, gas stations and other retail outlets.
A lawsuit in 2011 overturned the ban allowing grocery stores to sell wine and spirits as long as they had a separate entrance and shop to sell alcoholic beverages. But get this, drug stores, which also sell food, are allowed to sell wine and spirits and do not require a separate entrance.
Addressing this anomaly, Judge Deborah Cook is quoted as saying that people visit grocery stores and gas stations more often than pharmacies and “people can survive without ever visiting a pharmacy. On the other hand, most people who object to confronting wine and liquor conceivably cannot avoid grocery stores and gas stations.”
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