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...Probably the most popular alcohol bought by Harvard students is beer... cheap beer," adds a clerk at the Mt. Auburn Street liquor store Harvard Provision Co., who spoke on condition of anonymity...
...friendly woman at the Cambridge Liquor License Commission assured me that it was indeed against the law to buy alcohol without some form of Massachusetts identification, and she suggested that I simply buy a Massachusetts Liquor Identification card. It would cost only "about $25" and a simple trip to the Registry of Motor Vehicles--along with a birth certificate...
...course, a less-than-friendly woman at the Registry of Motor Vehicles informed me that she had never heard of the so-called "Liquor" I.D. card. She did know, however, about Massachusetts driver's licenses ($33.75 including a road test) and Massachusetts state I.D. cards...
...turned to the Alcoholic Beverage Control Commission (ABC), the guys who are supposedly responsible for enforcing Massachusetts state alcohol laws. "What's the deal with the new liquor law?" I queried. Chief Investigator Maurice Delvendo quickly assured me that there is no new liquor law--1, like many others, was confused...
...Delvendo made it clear to me that is in fact legal for establishments in Massachusetts to accept out-of-state driver's licenses--they just aren't required to. As Delvendo put it, "they do so at their own peril." If bars, liquor stores, or convenience stores are caught accepting a fake driver's license, they will be prosecuted and can lose their vital liquor license. So businesses must be very careful when accepting out-of-state I.D.s. But that's the way it's always been...