The state of New Jersey has some of the most complicated laws dealing with the production, distribution, sale, and consumption of ethanol in the United States. You can read more about them here:
Alcohol laws of New Jersey
New Jersey is a very old state; only Delaware and Pennsylvania entered the union before it. This isn't really an excuse for the hideous complexity of alcohol laws in the Garden State, but it works a little bit better as an explanation. Older governments tend to become palimpsests of regulations on laws on constitutions re-jiggered into rules that may or may not actually be enforced. Still, the patchwork quilt of legal frameworks that runs from the Atlantic coast to the Delaware River gives me a bit of headache, and seems to be asking for replacement with something more sensible.
It makes sense that things like landing gear, the stock market, and the human genome are complex, though each's complexity emerges in its own way from simple beginnings. New Jersey's alcohol laws, though. There's just no excuse for that.
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