(TDB) - From the practical and protective to the inexplicably bizarre, America is home to some of the world’s oddest alcohol laws.

When the 21st Amendment ended the 13-year Prohibition in 1933, authority for regulating the consumption of alcohol was handed over to state lawmakers.

Caught between feeling like kids in a candy shop, their favourite libations now finally legal, and a need to maintain a level head amid its collapse, state lawmakers hastily threw together a menagerie of laws designed to maintain order.

Some were practical, necessary even, while others were simply unexplainable and by today’s standards throughly redundant. Evidently, drunken moose were such a problem in Alaska that serving them alcohol had to be outlawed.

Today, most of the more quirky laws that remain serve as a somewhat comical nod to America’s long and winding relationship with alcohol.

Has that moose been drinking?

In Alaska it is illegal to serve alcoholic beverages to a moose. While i’m sure cracking open a beer with a moose is not high on most people’s list of priorities, it seems the notion of preventing drunken moose is a wise one. Earlier this year Swedish authorities watched on as a “severely drunk” moose struggled to free itself after getting stuck in a tree after eating too many fermented apples. Happily, the 1,500 pound moose was eventually able to slide itself out of the tree to sleep off its inevitable hangover.