like utah, the state chooses your wines for you and hopefully we will help you pair them with dinner. maryland is not a control state, but there s one county in the state, montgomery county that does it that way, too. le a little taste of utah in the middle of maryland. it isn t just between places that have state stores for booze and states that don t have state stores. i mean, in some places you can buy beer or wine or hard stuff at the rite aid or gas station. in some places you can buy beer at a gags station, but spirits come from a state store that looks like a prison. there are all the different levels of control on the sale and distribution of booze up to and including the state becoming the retailer that sells you the booze. now that is about to happen with pot, too, sort of. three states had wide-ranging new rules about pot the on the ballot this year. not about medical marijuana but recreationalal use of marijuana. it passed in washington and colorado but not in oregon,