Nope. If it did, I wouldn't gripe about it. I asked liquor stores about it and they said it was not a state law. Walmart doesn't require ID unless you look like you're under 40, and that is store policy.
All I'm wanting is bit a of common sense. Obviously they don't want to sell to under-age people, but I am nearly 70 and I'm not under-age. Just to look at me 21, is a long-ago memory, and asking me to prove my age at this point in my life is insulting and demeaning.
I just laugh and tell them "Thank you" for thinking the I look so young. I have too little life left to get upset about various company policies created by lawyers to protect the corporation against other lawyers.
Another well-intentioned law that fails to accomplish what was intended and causes widespread annoyance as everyone jumps through the hoops. Ultimately our over abundance of laws leads to disrespect for the law in general. Lack of parenting is the root problem and you can't pass a law to replace good parenting.
what? A lack of good parenting is the reason a 20 year old might want a drink?
I have no idea where they came up with the age limits. But I suspect they were based on whatever made a good sound-bite way back when. Main issue appears to have been the abdication of responsibility by individuals and expectation that laws could be a suitable substitute.
Maybe...… However, I blame 'participation trophies' because that makes "everybody a winner".
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i think, in part, it has to do with brain development. But that might not have been the reasoning used.
And how would you discourage black market sales? I mean, it's illegal to sell to anyone under 21, yet the market will always be there. So, aside from laws, how would you keep someone from trying to profit from that market?
