Penn State has updated its Responsible Action Protocol to encourage more students to call 911 in case of emergency, even when the situation involves alcohol or drugs.
The university’s Responsible Action Protocol already protected students from disciplinary action if they are underage drinking or are under the influence of other drugs but call for help for another person in need.
Cannabis will be sold at only nine Nova Scotia Liquor Corporation stores when the drug is officially legalized in July, the province announced Tuesday. Pot will be sold at four outlets in the Halifax area and at stores in Amherst, Truro, New Glasgow, Sydney River, and Yarmouth, Justice Minister Mark Furey said.
It’s currently illegal for Iowans to buy wine or beer in another country or even another state and bring it into Iowa. Senator Roby Smith of Davenport is sponsoring a bill that, essentially, would let Iowans transport 48 cans of beer or six bottles of wine across the state line. “This would bring common sense regulations to Iowa,” Smith says.
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Kansas House approved a bill that would toughen penalties for habitual drunken driving on the same day it passed a bill allowing restaurants to begin serving alcohol earlier in the morning.
If you’ve ever gotten drunk in a South Dakota bar, the establishment that served you was breaking the law. A long-standing provision in South Dakota alcohol regulations makes it illegal for the owner of an alcohol license to “allow any person to become intoxicated on the licensed premise.”
Irish drinkers are easing off on the booze, a study revealed on Tuesday. Researchers found three quarters of us are “much more aware” of the dangers of over indulging – a 6% increase on last January.
ARDMORE, Okla. -- Starting in February, liquor store customers will be paying four percent more for adult beverages.
The higher prices are the result of State Question 792, approved by voters in 2016.
We were warned. The venture capitalist and Netscape founder Marc Andreessen wrote a widely read essay in 2011 titled “Why Software Is Eating the World”. But we didn’t take Andreessen seriously; we thought it was only a metaphor. Now we face the challenge of extracting the world from the jaws of internet platform monopolies.
Projects across Scotland which fight alcohol misuse have received funding from whisky bosses. The fourth round of the Scotch Whisky Action Fund is set to benefit 14 organisations.
Boomers are buying less wine. Millennials aren’t picking up the slack. As a result, the growth of wine sales is slowing, while buying patterns are shifting in ways that are sending chills down the collective spine of the U.S. wine industry.