Let's get this out the way first, it is ILLEGAL for someone under 18 to buy alcohol, attempt to buy alcohol or to be sold alcohol. That said, very few of us wait until we are 18 to drink - tins down the park is pretty much a rite of passage when growing up.
The number of TV ads for alcoholic beverages and private lenders dropped last year from the year before, records from the communications watchdog showed Friday, apparently as the ads were more broadly distributed to other outlets, such as mobile platforms.
With restrictions around alcohol sales becoming ever tighter, we look at the supermarkets policies when it comes to serving alcohol. What does the law say?
Servers and bartenders now have one more responsibility on their plate — detecting cannabis impairment before letting the booze flow.
Facial recognition software for alcohol sales, which removes the need for staff-approved age verification checks, is to be trialled in UK supermarkets for the first time, after waiting for age approval has been identified as one of the top frustrations for shoppers.
The Ministry of Health welcomes a decision by the Australian and New Zealand Forum on Food Regulation to make warning labels about the dangers of drinking during pregnancy mandatory on alcohol packaging.
Canada’s drive to legalize marijuana kicks off early Wednesday with store openings on the Atlantic Coast, giving the country a massive head start in developing a global pot market that some analysts peg at $150 billion.
KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 16 — After raising the legal drinking age from 18 to 21 two years ago, the government has finally standardised the legal liquor buying age.
People have to be “honest” about their cannabis use if they want the stigma to go up in smoke. That’s according to one of five experts at a panel discussion on the legalization of cannabis held Sept. 10 at Niagara College’s Niagara-on-the-Lake campus.
YEREVAN, Armenia — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau suggested Saturday morning the incoming Quebec government’s plan to raise the legal age for smoking cannabis to 21 could leave an opening for organized crime.