I thought it was supposed to get better..

Article in today's Reno Gazette Journal:
http://www.rgj.com/article/20100606/NEWS/100606014

[David M. Bueker]

Well hopefully the potential new law won't pass.

Supposedly there is influential objection (think much of California delegation) against it.

David,
Hopefully it won't pass. Never the less, I sent nice letters to our Congressman and Senators urging them to vote against it and I will continue to be allowed to ship in 12 cases a month (as Nevada law currently stands). I know from posts that I have read on this forum, that other states have it worse. Has it ever got better anywhere?
Shaji

From the article:

Chief Executive Officer Craig Wolf of Wine & Spirits Wholesalers of America the company’s 2006 study showed 10 percent of teens either bought alcohol over the Internet or know a teen who did. A National Academy of Science survey in 2004 had similar results, he said.

So let me understand this. In a typical high school that has a class of 200 people where one person buys alcohol over the internet and tells his 4 best friends who in turn tell 4 people each I have just made the 10% cited with a single teenager? I love the use of numbers to justify a position.

Shaji, it has been several years now since North Carolina passed a law allowing for wineries to ship direct to customers in NC as long as the wineries pay a licensing fee and adhere to certain limitations. I have joined several mailing lists since the legislation was passed, so yes it is better now in NC than in the past. I believe the legislation was spurred by a couple NC lawyers who were wine lovers and who protested that restrictions went against the free commerce clauses.

[James Roscoe]

Don't worry, even the extreme right wingers on the Supreme Court couldn't let such an obviously unconstitutional law go through. At least that is my take.