Alcohol and Beverage Control. State run liquor stores. Anything stronger than beer or wine has to be purchased in one of these stores. In Maryland you can't buy beer or wine in a grocery store. Liquor store carries everything. Pennsylvania also has weird laws rerading the sale of alcohol.
It threw me for a loop when i visited MD. Must have spent 5 minutes looking for beer in the grocery store... thought i was going crazy.
Blue law "after 12/2/whatever" and "no Sunday" nonsense is common... and ive been to WA where the hard stuff isnt in box stores... but MD is over the top.
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