Maine the Nanny State

[zedzul]

Is this A new Law?

I Buy Raspberry Mead (Honey wine) over the internet all the time ( last shipment about 4 months ago) Are you saying i wont be able to get more now I'm down to one bottle please say it ant so

[Submariner]

Originally Posted by genmomto5

I thought the same as your wife about parents offering wine or other alcohol to their children. While PA's law is one of the strictest in this regard, most states allow parents to serve alcohol to their children in their private homes. Now in Maine it is legal for a minor to consume alcohol in a home as long as a parent is present. I don't personally do this. Heck, I'm a Quaker from PA (I thik they wrote the blue laws) so it is as outside of my comfort zone as it for your wife. I do find it interesting how different the US can be in regard to laws from state to state.

Really?

We lived in Italy and in Ct; and had gotten into the lifestyle of serving wine at dinner every evening. Our children were being served a wine cooler.

When we moved up here, I was observing all of the arrests in Orono in the Penobscot times. Included in them were arrests for under-age drinking within the home.

And then one day I had WVOM [a local talk radio station] going; and they were interviewing the Penobscot county sheriff. He went on a rant about under age drinking in Maine, and how it was his mission to arrest every parent who served his child alcohol. That with police in the classrooms, talking to children, the police routinely are told [by the children] which homes serve alcohol to minors. He went so far as to state that priests were breaking the law should they serve communion wine to minors in church, and that he could not understand why folks were letting this go on in their churches.

So after reading and hearing all of this; we had stopped serving wine to our children at dinner.

[Maineah]

Originally Posted by zedzul

Is this A new Law?

I Buy Raspberry Mead (Honey wine) over the internet all the time ( last shipment about 4 months ago) Are you saying i wont be able to get more now I'm down to one bottle please say it ant so

No it's not new. Some companies will ship small quantities without regard. I was once in a beer club that sent around a six pack a month from various states and they were not hassled by the nanny state.
Maine just doesn't want anyone circumventing their strangle hold on the booze industry bypassing their puppet distributors. It is an outdated system whose only real purpose is to collect taxes for the state.
I'm sure you're all aware that the prohibition movement started in Maine.
It never really died off completely. There are still a lot of tea totalers in Maine who have no love for evil alcohol consumers. These people have never been able to make the distinction between someone having a casual glass of wine with dinner and the full blown alcoholic wreaking havoc on the streets.
To them we're all one in the same.