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Teens and NIH Scientists Join Forces for 2018 National Drug & Alcohol Facts Week®

WASHINGTON, Jan. 23, 2018 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Teens and scientists will connect for the eighth annual National Drug & Alcohol Facts Week® (NDAFW) held Jan. 22-28, 2018. This week-long observance gives young people the facts about how alcohol and drugs can affect them, both in the short-term and over their lifetime.

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Drizly adds top execs from Apple, Vistaprint, Intelligent.ly

Drizly, the Boston-based creator of an online marketplace for alcohol, has added a trio of executives with experience at brand-name companies like Apple, Procter & Gamble, and Vistaprint.

The startup named Joe Grabmeier as its chief financial officer, a role he most recently held at Adelphic Inc., a Waltham-based digital marketing startup that Time Inc. bought a year ago. 

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Opinion: Cabinet decision to ban women from buying liquor is unconstitutional

Women are permitted to purchase liquor. On 10 January 2018, the Minister of Finance and Mass Media issued Excise Notification No. 02/2018 under the Excise Ordinance, No. 8 of 1912 (as amended). The new Notification amends Excise Notification No. 666 of 31 December 1979, and removes the ban on the sale of liquor to women ‘within the premises of a tavern’.

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This Tiny French Archipelago Became America’s Alcohol Warehouse During Prohibition

The tiny islands of Saint Pierre and Miquelon—cold, fogbound and windswept specks in the North Atlantic midway between New York City and Greenland—lie far closer to polar bears and icebergs than the speakeasies and clubs where Americans tippled during Prohibition. But thanks to quirks of geography, history and law, the French archipelago served up much of the booze that Prohibition was supposed to keep Americans from drinking.