OT: Someone please explain this ABC debacle going on right now

[onewoof]

Can someone explain this to those of us that are clueless? It seems like it is a standoff between suppliers and a state entity that controls a lucrative market. The whole thing smells like a hold out for those that are trying to stop the sell of liquor online to MS residents.

Wine was allowed last year, liquor this year and what do you know, supplies are hard to come by. hmmmm...........

State Rep. Zuber speaks out on Mississippi ABC backlog affecting liquor stores and restaurants

Zuber said lawmakers are considering several remedies, including removing the state from the liquor distribution business.

www.wlox.com

Mississippi House passes Sunday alcohol sales and direct shipment of liquor

The first would allow the direct shipment of liquor to Mississippians’ homes, and the second would let local authorities pass ordinances allowing the sale of alcohol on Sundays.

www.wlbt.com

 

[CochiseCowbell]

Oscar absconded with the F, Elmo kept the G in protest, & the Count's burning a Q in solidarity. The whole street is in chaos.

 

[eckie1]

Oscar absconded with the F, Elmo kept the G in protest, & the Count's burning a Q in solidarity. The whole street is in chaos.

 

[DerHntr]

It’s incredible that marijuana can be prescribed in MS but you can’t buy alcohol on Sunday. What a time to be alive

 

[Anon1684630174]

Ruan, the company that runs the warehouse for the state shut down for 3 days in January to do inventory and apparently install a new software program used for pulling and shipping orders. When they fired it up it immediately crashed and we have been told that the new software didn’t talk with the State’s and or shipping company’s software, making things worse.

The next ’17 up a few days later was one of the conveyer belts broke and b/c it is expensive to fix, they just decided to break it down and not fix it since they are moving into a new warehouse early next year. You heard right; next year. They decided they would hand pull everything and place it on pallets to ship out. Huge cluster 17.

Under normal conditions, they ship out around 27,000 cases per day. Once they finally started shipping again after about 10 days, they were getting 5,000 cases out per day. It gets better though. Because they weren’t getting anything shipped out, they ran out of room in the warehouse and told the distributors to cut way back on what they bring in. Because of that and panic buying, there is nothing to order now. Another huge cluster 17.

Once **** hit the fan, Ruan supposedly hired a bunch of people and are working round the clock 6 days a week. There is currently a backlog of around 26 days. Whoever thought that whatever they were doing would be ok for almost a whole year and made the decisions they did need to be sweeping the warehouse because that is all they are qualified to do. I‘m at a loss over how all of this could happen.

 

[Baddog11]

It’s incredible that marijuana can be prescribed in MS but you can’t buy alcohol on Sunday. What a time to be alive

It’s incredible that what you’ve been told about marijuana your entire life, the opposite is true.

Study challenges negative cannabis stereotypes, claiming link to brain benefits

Cannabis was linked to increased brain volume in a new study, but researchers urge caution, as findings contradict previous research on marijuana's effects.

health.yahoo.com

 

[hatfieldms]

It’s incredible that marijuana can be prescribed in MS but you can’t buy alcohol on Sunday. What a time to be alive

Marijuana should be legal and adults should be able to buy alcohol whenever they want

 

[onewoof]

Marijuana should be legal and adults should be able to buy alcohol whenever they want

Only a godless territory like Colorado would allow that

 

[DerHntr]

It’s incredible that what you’ve been told about marijuana your entire life, the opposite is true.

Study challenges negative cannabis stereotypes, claiming link to brain benefits

Cannabis was linked to increased brain volume in a new study, but researchers urge caution, as findings contradict previous research on marijuana's effects.

health.yahoo.com

I’m for marijuana and alcohol, but not for the irony in MS (of all places) to allow marijuana and not fully allow alcohol.

 

[The Cooterpoot]

It's called dumbass Mississippi! The whole damn model is bad and runs up prices by limiting competition, not to mention it limits what citizens can buy in-state. Mississippi can't get out of its own way once again!

 

[onewoof]

That all sounds believable but the timing is not a coincidence.

 

[The Cooterpoot]

That all sounds believable but the timing is not a coincidence.

The Baptists: Prayer works!

 

[Trojanbulldog19]

I though this was about broadcasting

 

[skydawg1]

We need online wine sales. Badly..

 

[Puppers]

It’s incredible that what you’ve been told about marijuana your entire life, the opposite is true.

Study challenges negative cannabis stereotypes, claiming link to brain benefits

Cannabis was linked to increased brain volume in a new study, but researchers urge caution, as findings contradict previous research on marijuana's effects.

health.yahoo.com

My only problem with the legalization so far is the smell. It smells like skunk *** at every gas station and strip mall. If someone could breed the smell out of it they would have something

 

[msstatelp1]

Too bad we don’t ask Louisiana or Illinois or Missouri how they do it. You know let Walmart or Convenience stores sell it at all hours of the day or night. Let it be shipped straight to the retailers etc.

if you want to do something correctly ask yourself “How would the State government of Mississippi do it” then do the opposite.

 

[grinningmule]

Have they even had a decent show since Lost?

 

[wdawg44]

The "marijuana products" the state offers being handicapped is about the most MS gov thing ever. I will never understand why they would purposely hinder the investors( who most donate politically and a lot have been run out of the business) and the end user.

 

[paindonthurt]

Can someone explain this to those of us that are clueless? It seems like it is a standoff between suppliers and a state entity that controls a lucrative market. The whole thing smells like a hold out for those that are trying to stop the sell of liquor online to MS residents.

Wine was allowed last year, liquor this year and what do you know, supplies are hard to come by. hmmmm...........

State Rep. Zuber speaks out on Mississippi ABC backlog affecting liquor stores and restaurants

Zuber said lawmakers are considering several remedies, including removing the state from the liquor distribution business.

www.wlox.com

Mississippi House passes Sunday alcohol sales and direct shipment of liquor

The first would allow the direct shipment of liquor to Mississippians’ homes, and the second would let local authorities pass ordinances allowing the sale of alcohol on Sundays.

www.wlbt.com

Case study in what happens when the gubment runs things.

 

[Lakedawg]

The part that no one is talking about is how the state legislature declined to fix this in the past, but now are solely blaming DOR.

 

[ETK99]

We need online wine sales. Badly..

We've got it but even it's jacked up

 

[MuffinMafia]

My only problem with the legalization so far is the smell. It smells like skunk *** at every gas station and strip mall. If someone could breed the smell out of it they would have something

I hate to put it this way for you, but the smell is what sells it a lot of the time

 

[Colonel Angus.sixpack]

I hate to put it this way for you, but the smell is what sells it a lot of the time

I love the smell but I get why a lot of people don’t. Sometimes too much is too much. There’s also a time and place for it. Around children isn’t one of them. That goes for tobacco too. There’s plenty of ways to do it that doesn’t smell. Who doesn’t love a delicious gummy, cookie or piece of candy that makes you feel good and isn’t pumping a shìtload of carcinogens through your respiratory system?

 

[FrontRangeDawg]

When my kids were young and we'd drive up to NE Denver for soccer/flag football, we'd drive through where most of the large grows were at the time. The smell of marijuana was pungent in the neighborhoods, to say the least. I don't think my kids ever asked me about what they smelled; they just grew up with it.