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WRONG! Thanks for playing. The answer is: because it's a controlled substance! That's right, boys and girls, unless you are at least 18 years of age - in ANY state - you can't buy the stuff at all!

Like it or not, that is the reason why it gets special treatment, just like tobacco and firearms. The government doesn't want them in the wrong hands so there are LIMITS to who can buy, and when.

BTW, food stamps are issued by combined federal AND state tax dollars. Nothing to do with Blue Laws, but thanks for stretching THAT rubber band.

Like it or not, -- [there is a] reason why [alcohol] gets special treatment, just like tobacco and firearms.
The government doesn't want them in the wrong hands so there are LIMITS to who can buy, and when.

Froufrou, -- has it ever occurred to you that government has never been delegated the constitutional power to give "special treatment" to alcohol, tobacco and firearms? Or that what gov't might "want" is unconstitutional?
-- No level of government in the USA is empowered to "LIMIT" or "-- deprive any person of life, liberty or property without due process of law. --" [14th]

As Justice Harlan recognized:

"-- The full scope of the liberty guaranteed by the Due Process Clause `cannot be found in or limited by the precise terms of the specific guarantees elsewhere provided in the Constitution.
This `liberty´ is not a series of isolated points pricked out in terms of the taking of property; -- the freedom of speech, press, and religion; -- the right to keep and bear arms; -- the freedom from unreasonable searches and seizures; and so on.
It is a rational continuum which, broadly speaking, includes a freedom from all substantial arbitrary impositions and purposeless restraints, . . .

Prohibitive laws over-regulating alcohol, tobacco and firearms are "substantial arbitrary impositions and purposeless restraints".