Smoke all the weed you want in NY, but don’t you dare buy wine in the supermarket | Opinion |
New York state has made itself into marijuana heaven.
Everywhere you go there’s the stink of weed: on the streets, on mass transit, even on the road while you’re driving.
No problem, according to New York.
And yet the state is for some reason squeamish about allowing people to buy wine in supermarkets.
Explain it to me, gods.
Forty states around the country allow consumers to buy wine in the supermarket. New York isn’t one of them, which seems odd given the robust wine industry on Long Island and in upstate New York.
But I get the opposition.
Liquor retailers are already facing competition from cannabis dispensaries and from the fact that younger people in general are embracing various forms of sobriety.
The kids don’t........