I guess you were referring to the idiot Carrie Nations in CA, right?

Remember the poem, “First they came for….”

This is why Obama’s order to stop prosecuting medical marijuana is worth no more than the paper it was written on.

As I’ve said before, there’s absolutely no evidence that there ever was such an order, written or otherwise.

Bottom of the Hill has been cited for not serving enough Mexican food.
Café du Nord has been cited for serving food at 8pm instead of 5pm (its website explicitly states that the doors open 1 hour before shows, and food is served 30 min after doors open)
DNA Lounge has been cited for “lewd behavior”.
Glas Kat supper club has been cited for not being open for lunch.
Great American Music Hall has been cited for not serving enough food.
Red Devil Lounge has been cited by for noise, with ABC disregarding local noise ordinances.
Slim’s has also been cited for not serving enough food.

Think about it for a moment as it applies to speed limits. Every driver at some point in his/her life will speed. It’s a simple combination of statistical probability and the fact that posted speed limits constantly vary from road to road and even block to block. Most of that speeding is minor, and sometimes you don’t even realize you’re doing it (ever been driving in a 30 mph and glanced down at the speedometer only to realize you’ve edged up to 35?). But the simple fact of it is that people speed, and 99% of the time they do so in a COMPLETELY SAFE manner that harms absolutely nobody. Speeding doesn’t even begin to become dangerous until you’re a good 15-20 mph above, and even then it’s not guaranteed (ever been on an empty straightaway highway in flyover territory? The speed limit says 70, but a competent and reasonably skilled driver could easily and safely do 100 there – in fact that does happen in places like the Autobahn, where the difference in road accidents is virtually negligible from those with speed limits).

That said, it’s generally not a smart idea to make a habit of speeding – not even mild speeding in the 5-10 over range. Why? There is ONE REASON and one reason alone. It is called cops, and they will pull you over for the smallest speeding infraction even if the circumstances of the road otherwise dictate that you are posing absolutely no threat to any other drivers (and even if they regularly speed themselves on the same road while responding to calls…or turning their lights on for convenience to get around traffic). But people in this country simply view that sort of thing as if it were normal and acceptable police behavior. If you were speeding and you got a ticket, the mindset is that you “deserved” it, and if you got away with it before it’s only because you got lucky.

I’m sorry, but that kind of logic is patently absurd. The simple truth is, I am perfectly capable of safely traveling at 80 mph on an open highway, as are most other drivers. The fact that I can do that and so choose to do it does not make me “deserving” of penalization for doing so, simply because somebody else appointed himself “protector” of my safety against my wishes and without me ever giving him my consent. What kind of a person sits on the side of the roadway, intercepts travelers, and essentially robs them of the contents of their wallet at gunpoint because he personally and arbitrarily deems their chosen rate of travel to be “unsafe” even if it plainly and demonstrably is not?

A petty minded tyrant, that’s who. And it’s a mindset that 99% of all cops have ingrained into them.

“The ones [cops] that do liquor stuff are no different in downright pettyness than the ones that police anything else. It’s inherent to the cop mindset of “us vs. the world.””

Actually, PW, the ABC cops really are worse. I know, I know. It’s tough to believe a group of people could be pettier than the normal police. But they can and they do. Which is kinda a feat, now that you mention it. You have to remember, lots of young boys want to grow up to be cops, so at least there is some small amount of happiness in their lives. NOBODY dreams of growing up to be an ABC board cop. So they are denied their dreams of being a “real” cop, and take it out on the people they come in contact with. Oh, and some think that if they do a “real good job” enforcing the ABC laws, they can, maybe, someday, before they are too old, move up to being real cops. All adds up to them being even worse than regular police.

Correction: Cops in general have to be among the most petty and arbitrary bureaucrats in government.

The ones that do liquor stuff are no different in downright pettyness than the ones that police anything else. It’s inherent to the cop mindset of “us vs. the world.”

The political leadership can even be 100% in agreement not to enforce something, but all it takes is one thug on a power trip and a personal crusade against alcohol, tobacco, drugs, guns, or anything else. Hell, cops even discriminate against people who drive certain types of cars or have a certain skin color because they can. You don’t even have to be doing anything wrong because the laws are so vaguely and poorly written and their discretion to enforce them is so broad they can literally arrest you at any time they want.

Walking on a public sidewalk? You could be loitering. Having a conversation in a public place with friends? You could be breaking a noise ordinance, or engaging in “disorderly conduct.” Having a drink in a bar? You could be “drunk in public.” Driving on virtually any public roadway? Do it long enough and you could be making an “improper” lane change, passing over some innocuous road stripe at the “wrong” place, or “driving aggressively” and “accelerating too quickly” even if you are within the speed limit and obeying all stoplights. And above all else if you so much as raise your voice to protest a cop doing something wrongful or illegal to you or anyone else, you could be “interfering with a police officer” or “resisting arrest.”

The point is that cops do not typically arrest people for crimes they witness. They arrest people for doing something that they personally don’t like, and then find a vague discretionary “offense” on the books and redefine it to fit the case. And they are intentionally trained to do this.

According to Albrecht, the answer is “based on public health and safety.” But when I asked him what was unhealthy or unsafe about infusion, he had no answer other than to say: “The department does not employ medical professionals.”

Priceless.