Let’s talk pot, shall we? Prohibition is a dirty word in 21st century America, as it should be! Those in American society who look down their noses at people who drink are seen as infantile or immature or simply no fun. The neo-puritanical view of smoking (cigarettes or cigars) is treated similarly, though it...
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Posts Tagged ‘ alcohol ’
4/20
Cigarettes and the Tax Man
Recently there was a bust in New York for an underground cigarette ring bringing lower taxed cigarettes from Virginia and Kentucky into Michigan and New York. This, coming on the heels of a $1.25/pack increase in New York. Two things: Why has it got so bad that there is now an underground market for...
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"Who Gets Paid With Your Tax Dollars," Weekend Edition!
Many juniors and seniors were driven to tears – a few to near hysterics – May 26 when a uniformed police officer arrived in several classrooms to notify them that a fellow student had been killed in a drunken-driving accident. The officer read a brief eulogy, placed a rose on the deceased student’s seat,...
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The Sin Tax Cometh
In Britain Alcohol duties will rise by 6 percent above the rate of inflation, meaning an extra 8 cents for a pint of beer, 26 cents for a bottle of wine and $1.10 a bottle for spirits such as whiskey, from this weekend. The duties will then rise by another 2 percent above inflation...
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GW stereo-types now online.
Apparently not enough people are aware of this school’s stereotype that our students are nothing but spoiled, privileged kids who care more about partying than actual school work. we now have: gwscene.com to tell the entire world of our wonderful times at super-cool clubs. This a a website that looks like nothing more than...
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It’s 5 O’Clock Somewhere
Reuters: Liquor makers in central China’s Henan province are planning a legal challenge to fight a ban on Communist Party officials and civil servants drinking alcohol at lunch during work days, state media said on Wednesday. Local restaurants are complaining they have taken a hit in terms of fewer lunch customers and lower revenues...
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Drugs and the Law
I was riding the bus through Piccadilly Circus the other day, and I noticed on the SKY News crawl (similar to what they have in New York’s Times Square) that, according to one recent study, the downgrading of marijuana to a “Class C” drug, which decriminalized possession in small amounts, has led Britain’s youth...
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Men, Marriage, and Gays
Meredith: the basic argument , which i agree with, is that men would not settle down and be productive if it weren’t for the civilizing influence of women via marriage. of course, it’s much more complex than that simple sentence, and gilder spends 100-200+ pages setting up this argument and...
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