While Connecticut opted not to legalize and tax recreational marijuana sales this year, many lawmakers saw the pot market as a cash cow that could rake in tens of millions of dollars annually for the state’s coffers.
Last week, 20 people were hospitalized in the midwestern part of the country — Illinois, Minnesota and Wisconsin — due to breathing complications as a result of vaping.
Many people don’t give it a second thought when selecting a glass of wine or cocktail off of a menu at a Florida bar or restaurant, but in places like the Dominican Republic, Mexico and Costa Rica, apprehension is likely given recent headlines of tragic deaths of tourists due to counterfeit alcohol.
The muffled sound of a dice shaking inside a soft, leather cup. The loud snap as the dice hit the counter. It's called Bar Dice. A drinking game commonly played in Wisconsin bars.
A new Gallup poll gauging the nation’s drinking preferences also reveals that the drinking habits of political and ideological rivals are similar. Well, sort of.
SOUTH AFRICA - It seems that the convenience of being able to have food delivered straight to your door with just a few clicks of a button might be proving particularly satisfying for a certain demographic – underage drinkers.
BRITISH COLUMBIA - Policy requires people to abstain from alcohol for six months in order to be eligible for a liver transplant.
Four Loko, an alcoholic beverage line once popular with millennials, appears to be jumping on the hard seltzer trend in an extreme way. In a series of tweets, Four Loko teased a seltzer boasting a much higher alcohol-by-volume amount than its main competitors.
Prohibition ended with the adoption of the 21st Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. It also gave the primary responsibility for alcohol regulation to the individual states. Why was that?
As a bartender, I sometimes see a sense of panic in the customer's eyes as they scan the menu. That unsettling feeling isn't because of the prices either.