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#19 Alaska – If You Get Drunk At a Bar, You Must Vacate The Premises

If you’re drunk at a bar in Alaska – you don’t have to go home, but you can’t stay there. Actually, you can’t “knowingly enter” or stay on premises where alcohol is stocked. So, if you have a lot of booze at home, you can’t go there either.

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This one is fairly recent – it has been actively enforced since 2014. The goal was to reduce alcoholism and violent crime, which are both rampant in the cold state. Alaska used to have the highest sexual assault rate per capital in the U.S. Over the past year, all violent crime has dropped almost 20%.

Banning drunks from bars may have helped, but the progress might actually be a result of a whole different law.