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Courting the female vote, the state’s Chief Minister Nitish Kumar made the dry law a bedrock of his re-election campaign and signed the Bihar Prohibition and Excise Act in 2016.

Kansas prohibited the production and sale of alcoholic beverages in 1881, and when that proved still too loose for some lawmakers, a 1917 “bone dry” law banned almost all personal possession and consumption.

After the storm, the commonwealth government imposed a dry law forbidding the sale of alcohol.

In the capital, the lifting of the dry law, or “ley seca,” sparked the return of a time-honored tradition of hanging out, beer in hand, in front of the city’s 24-hour convenience stores.

Some islanders got their cell phone service back on Sunday while others gathered at bars for drinking and dancing after the dry law was lifted this weekend.