Mildly Infuriating

Can and box are real and sold in Canada.

Poster is AI slop. Either added into the image or made by the store. Budweiser wouldn't be promoting Corona, a competitor.

Rates of alcohol use and addiction have been decreasing.

This is just getting them started early like cigarettes always tried to do.

Ok, I did the digging on this because you asked. I actually just assumed because I was carded for NA beer that this was a law.

In the US, federally it is not illegal to sell less than 0.5% without carding. But many states treat NA beer the same as normal beer and they require the person be over 21. In the states that do not require 21 and over for NA beer many (most) stores and bars will still card because its better safe than sorry when it comes to ABC and losing your license.

So even tho it might be legal, you are probably still going to get carded, except at this place I guess.

But also I am struggling to understand why someone would choose to drink NA beer if they didn't already know what real beer was like and was trying to avoid it by getting the NA kind (like me). Like - NA beer costs the same as real beer, just buy literally anything else to drink and its cheaper.

Eliminating reasonableness is the first step in creating an abusive legal system.

The real reason is you don't. Not in every state. Some defined it by a strict measurable standard. Others defined it to close off what's depicted in this image. Others defined it to describe what was banned as oppressed to what you measure, so that if you're selling beer you can't sell it to kids. No checking labels, no "well, it's my home brew so I don't know". Is it beer? You can't sell it to kids.

The last one is almost funny because you can almost feel the confusion about why the concept of non-alcoholic beer even exists.

Because it's beer. Generally the way laws are written in the us, they call out beer, wine, and spirits, or some such wording, not being available to under 21s.

Laws generally do not mention alcohol content of whatever it is you're buying.

Vice is difficult to regulate, and laws surrounding vice are imperfect