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Half a million kids report easily buying alcohol online...
...3.1 million say their friends do it, too.
Yet nobody is watching.
IT'S TIME TO TAKE A STAND.
As your state decides whether to relax or tighten alcohol shipping laws, consider:
A national survey reveals that kids are buying alcohol over the Internet with ease.
A recent audit shows that, since 2002, only five states have conducted any kind of online alcohol compliance check. Yet in the past year, 20 states have relaxed their alcohol shipping laws. Click here to see a summary of current state alcohol shipping laws.
In July, a Maine magistrate judge recommended upholding the state's alcohol regulatory controls in a lawsuit filed by an Oregon winery on the grounds that "wine is an alcoholic beverage that is contraband when placed in certain minors' hands, and the State has concluded that mail order transactions cannot reliably be policed." Click here to see the Maine recommendation.
And for the first time since the Supreme Court's Granholm v. Heald decision in 2005, a federal court has reaffirmed the three-tier system as being "unquestionably legitimate." In September, the U.S. Fourth Circuit Appeals Court reinstated Virginia's law limiting the personal importation of wine from out-of-state producers, recognizing that our regulatory system ensures public safety, product quality and the proper management and control of alcohol.
We ask that you start taking the regulation of online sales as seriously as other alcohol sales.
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