Personal Responsibility with Intoxicants

You are a person with a functioning brain. Because of that you are free to make choices, and choices have consequences.

You have the choice to purchase products that can hurt you physically, or alter your thought patterns.

According to the government though, you don't, they want to control your body by telling you what you can and can't put in it.

Storeowner charged for selling mouthwash as liquor

The 31-year-old man was allegedly selling "a variety of antiseptic
mouthwash products" to people desperate to get alcohol.

The products were sold from the man's West End convenience store at
triple or quadruple the regular price, police said.

Area residents complained to police after people who drank the products
were urinating and defecating nearby and tossing the empty bottles all
over.

So if I understand correctly, a storeowner sold a legal product (mouthwash) to some people who were willing to pay for it at higher prices. I'm not going to speculate on why they would drink mouthwash rather than beer or other liquor, because that is not the point.

What does it mean to sell mouthwash "as liquor"? Does raising the price determine that?

One commenter on the story had this to day.

How do we know the store owner didn't inflate the price as a deterrent?
Having those types of people outside his store at all hours can't have been good
for business... why would he cater to them?

Did the store owner verbally encourage people to buy mouthwash and drink it? Did he put it on display in front of pictures of bikini-girls having fun, like the beer companies do?

Personally, I don't think fining him is the right thing to do. He sold a legal
product, which has no sales restrictions, to customers. What he chooses to
charge is his perogitive, where people choose to buy their mouthwash is their
own. At some point the person who consumes an intoxicant has to take
responsibility for their own actions.

I agree.