"By the end of this month, Robbie Wilson and Matt Davidson plan to start selling to-go cocktails from their Northwest Portland bar — whether the state permits it or not. This morning, Wilson and Davidson, owners of the cocktail bar Botanist, posted to the bar’s Instagram account that it would begin offering cocktails to-go on November 25 — despite the state’s ban on takeout cocktails. The post describes the sales as “a civil disobedience protest of our state’s constitution,” a last resort after months of phone call and email campaigns, social media campaigns, and petitions calling for the legalization of to-go drinks. In Wilson and Davidson’s perspective, the looming winter, lack of stimulus, and slowdown of business has made the need for to-go cocktail sales absolutely essential; if the state wouldn’t let them do it, they’d do it themselves as a matter of survival." - Alex Frane
