Raleigh, N.C. — Grocery stores and other retailers could sell liquor under a long-discussed privatization bill that rolled out Tuesday at the General Assembly.
House Bill 971 would overhaul the state's Alcoholic Beverage Control system, taxing and regulating the industry but doing away with government-run stores. Legislative staff analysis indicates the measure would easily triple the number of places liquor is sold in North Carolina.
Over the 30 days nearly 15 million people have driven a car within an hour of using marijuana, according to a survey released recently by AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety.
Effects from marijuana can be experienced anywhere from one to four hours after usage. Those under the influence of the drug are twice as likely to be in car crash, the survey said.
A POWERFUL medical association has called for a minimum price for alcohol to be introduced to discourage people from binge-drinking cheap booze.
Coca-Cola Japan last year began test-marketing Lemon-Do, a lemon chuhai, in the southwestern region of Kyushu, considered the home of chuhai, a type of premixed cocktail with shochu liquor. In October, the Japanese unit will begin shipping the canned alcoholic beverage to supermarkets and convenience stores across the nation, becoming the U.S. beverage giant’s sole unit to retail an alcoholic product.
The British Beer & Pub Association has today welcomed a new commitment from the UK Government to reconsider alcohol free descriptors.
The Government’s commitment was stated in a new green paper, titled 'Advancing our health: prevention in the 2020s', which also committed the Government to working with the alcohol industry to increase significantly in the availability of alcohol-free and low-alcohol products by 2025.
The Louisiana Office of Alcohol and Tobacco Control is now accepting permit applications from retail businesses that want to deliver alcoholic beverages to homes.
ATC expects to issue the first permits by early August.
WICHITA, Kan. (KAKE) - It was only four months ago that Kansas grocery and convenient stores stocked their shelves with 6% beer for the first time instead of 3.2%. However, those stores were not the only ones who started selling new products.
Changes in liquor sale laws also included a compromise: liquor stores could sell nonalcoholic products. Tom Jacob, owner of Jacob Liquor, is making the most of the compromise to compensate for sales.
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The New Hampshire Liquor Commission (NHLC) will host a ribbon cutting ceremony for the 20,000-square-foot, energy-neutral Tri-City NH Liquor & Wine Outlet in Somersworth. The new Outlet, which is located in the revitalized building of the former Dover-Rochester-Somersworth Street Railway Trolley Car Repair Shop, serves Somersworth, Dover, Rochester and surrounding Maine communities. The Tri-City Outlet features more than 4,200 sizes and varieties of wines and spirits is easily accessible off the Spaulding Turnpike and Route 108.
The BMA and other leading healthcare organizations have written to the public health minister expressing their growing concerns over the impact that alcohol is having on the nation’s health urging the Government to prioritize a new alcohol strategy.
BEIJING (CHINA DAILY/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) - A large liquor cabinet was the first thing that came to mind when Mr Lu Xin considered decorating a new apartment with his wife.
