MANILA, Philippines – "Kids can easily like it. It's sweet." This was the comment of Senate ways and means committee chairperson Pia Cayetano when she tasted a sample of an alcopop, a fruit-flavored alcohol drink, during a hearing on increasing the taxes on alcohol and cigarettes.
Licensed cannabis producers are being invited to participate in a call for new products that are due to be legalized later this year.
A Singapore-based company sanctioned last year by the U.S. Treasury was on Thursday charged with facilitating shipments of alcohol worth SGD600,000 ($432,384) to North Korea.
A Scottish University has closed its Student Union bar because of a dwindling demand for alcohol from its students who increasingly prefer coffee to beer.
As the doorbell at Thomas H. Clarke's independent legal cannabis shop goes non-stop, its owner laments its looming closure.
Costa Rica has been hit with a wave of methanol poisoning linked to adulterated alcohol, according to a report from Food Safety News.
In this research update, Kathryn Waldegrave, lecturer in community medicine at the University of Leeds, summarises the evidence for making the not-so-straightforward assessment of 'responsible' drinking in older adults.
The National Measurement Institute (yes, it’s a thing) wants to make sure you’re getting the booze you paid for when you’re at licensed venues such as restaurants, pubs and clubs.
MANILA, Philippines — The House ways and means panel on Tuesday took less than an hour to approve a bill raising the “sin tax” on alcoholic products, a high-priority measure that the chamber passed in 2018 but was not enacted on time.
A New South Wales suburb is battling to stop a second Woolworths attempt to build an alcohol superstore amid community problems with domestic violence, underage drinking and crime in what experts describe as a pattern of the supermarket giant targeting disadvantaged areas.