A final and desperate legal effort to keep liquor stores under the sole management of the state failed in Olympia today as the Washington State Supreme Court upheld an initiative this morning that allows grocers to sell liquor starting tomorrow.

Filed by the Washington Association for Substance Abuse and Violence Prevention and a cadre of co-signers, the suit claimed that Initiative 1183, which was passed by 59 percent voters last November, violated the state constitution by addressing more than one subject. The court rejected that argument. Plaintiffs also claimed that the ballot title was misleading because the fees should have been referred to as "taxes." In today’s decision, the state Attorney General's office explains, the judges wrote that “we will not void a law duly enacted by voters” based on the meaning of one word.

Anyhow, look forward to buying a bottle of—even more expensive, with all the new taxes and such—booze at the grocery store first thing in the morning.