Consumer Preference/Demand Driving Legislative Changes for Bev Alc & Beyond

Dear Client: This week your editors traveled to Orlando, FL for the 88th annual National Alcohol Beverage Control Association (NABCA) conference, with about 900 other industry members and regulators in attendance.  On day one of the conference, NABCA director of public policy Terrance Merriweather led a panel covering the latest movement on the alcohol legislative and legal landscape.  "This has been a pretty busy legislative year," said NABCA associate counsel Harrison Martingayle.  Broadly, Harrison pointed out that there's been a