Monday marks the 100th anniversary of the passage of the 18th Amendment banning the manufacture, sale and transportation of alcohol in the United States.
The amendment, which led to Prohibition, received a thumbs-up vote from U.S. Rep. W.W. Griest, who represented Lancaster County at the time. It was ratified in 1919 and went into effect in January 1920.
Americans have a much more complicated relationship with alcohol it seems than other countries, in which it's much more common for parents to allow their kids to have a sip of alcohol at the dinner table.
A new study published in the British Medical Journal has revealed that the size of a wine glass has increased almost seven times since 1700, rising from an average capacity of 66ml to 449ml in 2016/17.
Alcohol has long been a part of Alaskan culture, and Alaskans have a legendary thirst for alcoholic beverages. The remoteness of Alaska, seasonal darkness, isolation, and loneliness creates a tremendous need to socialize, which provides a unique niche for bars to prosper.
Two universities found that one in six parents gives their children alcohol by the age of 14, when their body and brain are not yet fully developed. Many parents may believe they are acting responsibly - but that's not backed up by research, experts said.
Regular takeaways were a risk to the heart, a separate study said.
You love social gatherings, but you're not a social drinker. Peer pressure can make it harder when you want to abstain for health or religious reasons, for instance.
MONTGOMERY COUNTY, MD - For more than 14 hours — in his car and on foot — Frank Sepehri had been looking for his 17-year-old son, Navid. He’d last seen him the night before and knew he had gone to a nearby party in Bethesda but not come home.
Brands are taking non-drinkers seriously. Over the years, research was released, showing that more youth are choosing to not drink alcoholic beverages. We have seen companies like JC le Roux release non-alcoholic champagne, Castle has released an alcohol-free beer, Seedlip’s non-alcoholic spirit and now Holder Vineyard & Wines has also joined the fray releasing their first alcohol-free wine, the Lautus Savvy White.
Cannabis-infused wine sounds like the sort of thing that a person would expect to already exist. We already have marijuana-infused Nutella and weed-infused coffee pods, so certainly someone must have come up with marijuana wine.
The State Department inspector general has opened an investigation into the department’s poor handling of complaints from U.S. tourists about tainted alcohol at five-star Mexican resorts highlighted by suspicions a 20-year-old Wisconsin woman died after consuming bad Mexican booze.
