MACKINAC ISLAND (AP) — Worried that Michigan voters might legalize recreational marijuana this fall, some Republican lawmakers think they have a way to apply the brakes: pass it themselves first to make it easier to change later.
BRUNSWICK — Caitlin Mance and Jacob Georgeson approached the Norumbega Cidery booth at the Crystal Spring farmers market on a late May morning, wearing the telltale expressions of uncertain but curious shoppers.
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) The New Hampshire Liquor Commission is visiting schools across the state to educate students on alcohol safety issues during prom and graduation season.
Meeting for the third time in recent months, the crowded field of candidates for legislative seats in District 18—who previously had been in accord on virtually all policy issues—Wednesday night found something about which to disagree: Montgomery County’s public liquor sales and distribution system.
RICHMOND – Cheyanne Newcomb credits her participation in the Youth Alcohol and Drug Abuse Prevention Project (YADAPP) with giving her inspiration to help others.
PORTLAND, Ore. – Faced with a backlog of applications for recreational marijuana licenses, the Oregon Liquor Control Commission says it will set aside any applications received after June 15 until the pileup is cleared.
Iowa Lowers Standard for Positive Synopsis: Effective July 1, 2018, Iowa employers may lower their standard for alcohol tests and consider taking action against an employee with a blood alcohol concentration as low as .02.
RALEIGH -- A controversial bill that ostensibly would make it impossible to open a new bar in North Carolina serving mixed drinks but no food likely won’t see the light of day in its current form, said one of its co-sponsors, N.C. Rep. Ted Davis, R-New Hanover.
HICKORY— Since April 2017, five people have died and five more were injured in shootings outside three of Hickory’s bars.
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Craft brewers in a froth over a North Carolina law requiring beer-makers to hand over substantial control of their product to an outside company on Tuesday sought communications involving one of the state's most powerful political interest groups.