The ban needs to be enacted legislatively after market creation.
What counts:
ban on distilled spirits only
ban for people born after a given date (simmilar to NZ tobacco ban)
extremely restrictive personal quotas (<20% average consumption prior to enactment)
What does not:
increasing drinking age
restricting sales to a small number of outlets
supreme court decision finding the sale of alcohol unconstitutional
anything a country with a theologically driven legislature does
an attempted ban that gets legally overturned before coming into effect
All timeframes:
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See also:
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(and other timeframes)
@JosephNoonan because it's deciding it was illegal already, just nobody knew it, and not making it newly illegal
@Radicalia as far as I understand the division of powers as commonly implemented courts are not intended to hold legislative power but only judicial. The goal of the Supreme Court is thus to provide correct interpretation of legislation already in place, in theory not creating new laws. The practical implementation does seem to stray from that goal though. In any case arbitrary decisions of a few unelected people don't fit with my intention for this market.