If you can't hire a cab to get you home when you are beyond driving legally (which doesn't take much), then I guess the new state position has to be that appointing a designated driver will not help you either.
It doesn't matter that there are arguments in favor of some of the causes for which government power is harnessed, the original premise of this country was that government shouldn't have great power over the people in the first place. Or at least that's what I was brought up to believe. Many years ago in central VA.
You said a mouthful! And it's been reported that a man who entered a cab alone when leaving a bar was arrested for public intoxication! The new prohibition, indeed!
That's correct. The new state position is that they still want you to buy alcohol, they just don't want you to consume or transport it.