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New Mexico may restrict drive-up liquor stores
BERNALILLO, N.M. (AP) —
When 5 p.m. rolls around and Art
Jaramillo locks the front door to
his liquor store, business at his
neon-lit, drive-up window around
the side swells.
As cars and trucks pull up,
Jaramillo is ready with 40-ounce
bottles of Budweiser and bottles of
tequila. His regular customers like
the convenience, especially those
who might be turned away under
the glare of the store’s inside lights
for looking too tipsy.
“When I’m drunk, I want to go
home, not to convenience stores
where there are lights and peo
ple can smell me,” George, a cus
tomer who gave only his first
name, said. “So I go to the drive-
up because it’s close to my house
and I won’t get hassled.”
With the nation’s highest rate of
alcohol-related traffic deaths, New
Mexico is slowing down to take an
other look at the state’s 235 drive-
up windows.
A bipartisan group of law
makers has introduced a pro
posal in the Legislature to allow
New Mexico communities to
vote individually on whether to
ban drive-up alcohol sales,
something that has been around
for decades.
Supporters say the measure
could reduce drunken driving and
the number of teen-agers buying
alcohol illegally.
The Legislature tried to pass a
similar bill during each of the past
three years. But Attorney General
Tom Udall said the prospects are
very good this year.
“Part of the reason I say that is
the evidence is increasing that the
drive-up windows contribute sig
nificantly to our alcohol problems
in New Mexico,” Udall said. “While
we have that support we should
strike while the iron is hot and get
it done. We could end up waiting
around for years going for an out
right ban.”
Despite lowering the blood-al
cohol limit to 0.08 percent five
years ago, New Mexico still leads
the nation in per capita alcohol-re
lated traffic deaths. It had 11.79
deaths per 100,000 people in 1996
—19 percent higher than the next-
highest state, Mississippi.
Mississippi is not among the
two dozen states that have drive-
up liquor sales. And experts do
not blame drive-up liquor win
dows alone for New Mexico’s
drunken driving problem. They
say a high alcoholism rate and a
cultural custom of drinking and
driving also contribute.
Also, the problem is com
pounded by long distances be
tween towns; an alcohol ban on
Indian reservations that forces
many people to hit the road for a
drink; and the fact that until
1993, drunken driving was not
even a felony in New Mexico.
While the Legislature debates
the fate of drive-up liquor sales,
store owners say they are tired of
being blamed for the state’s drunk
en driving problem.
“We can’t be responsible for
all of the problems on the high
ways,” Dennis Salazar, the own
er of Saints & Sinners Liquors in
Espanola, said.
Salazar said 95 percent of his
business is done through the win
dow, and shutting it would put
him out of business.
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The 38-year-old woman, who
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She would be the first woman ex
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The Court of Criminal Appeals
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stitutional and denied her request
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“There is no tradition or practice in
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