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.
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.
The Ontario government's cannabis wholesaler and online retailer is returning all products from CannTrust Holdings Inc. — valued at roughly $2.9-million — because they do not conform with the terms of its supply deal with the beleaguered cannabis company.
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.
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.
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.
As the doorbell at Thomas H. Clarke's independent legal cannabis shop goes non-stop, its owner laments its looming closure.
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.
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.