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Researchers at the University of Connecticut in the US tracked the effect of teenage alcohol and marijuana use on the achievement of life goals, defined as educational achievement, full time employment, marriage and social economic potential. The study included 1,165 young adults from across the US whose habits were first assessed at age 12 and then at two- year intervals until they were between 25 and 34 years old. ... Overall, individuals who were dependent on either marijuana or alcohol during their teen years achieved lower levels of education, were less likely to be employed full time or get married...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) - El Nopal Mexican restaurant on Zorn Avenue sits empty on Saturday afternoon, but the night before on January 2, the alcohol was flowing for two high ranking Louisville Metro Government employees. The city's Chief Financial Officer, Steve Rowland and Majority Caucus Director, Elizabeth Hoffman were arrested for alcohol intoxication in a public place and disorderly conduct. El Nopal Manager Leandro Reyes told police they drank too much and were partaking in disruptive, provocative, intimate behavior. “Kissing and I mean a little bit too much,” Reyes told WDRB News. So much Reyes says that several families with...

Muslim students at a university which proposed to ban the sale of alcohol from parts of campus on their behalf are claiming the decision is “divisive”, “irresponsible” and based on a “gross generalisation”. The students at London Metropolitan University said the prospective alcohol ban was “ill-advised and misleading”, demonising them and exacerbating “Islamophobia” at the university and in wider society. They warned the proposals had created such ill-feeling amongst students that it is "only a matter of time" before a Muslim student is assaulted. They accused Vice Chancellor Professor Malcolm Gillies of “immorally” using them as “scapegoats” in order to...

The Klement's Racing Italian Sausage went barhopping in Cedarburg recently, delighting patrons and posing for photos. The only problem: No one can say who was wearing the $3,000 costume, which had just been stolen from the city's Winter Festival. The 7-foot-long weenie was lying unused in a backroom at the Milwaukee Curling Club's new Cedarburg location during a fundraiser on Feb. 16 with beer-tasting and curling, and a witness saw the sausage walk out of the south door about 7:45 p.m., Cedarburg police Detective Jeff Vahsholtz said Wednesday. The Italian walked into TJ Ryan's in Cedarburg an hour later and...

Local man facing firearms, moonshine violations Posted: 4:39 PM Mar 14, 2008 (WVLT) A Cocke County man is now facing federal firearms and moonshine violations. 61 year old Marvin "Popcorn" Sutton of Parrotsville is charged in a four count complaint with three federal charges, related to the making, possessing and selling of untaxed whiskey. Sutton also faces one charge of being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm. If convicted, Sutton faces up to ten years in federal prison on the firearms count and five years for each of the moonshining counts. He faces up to a $250,000 fine...

MISHAWAKA — The cause of death of a man who mistakenly shot himself has been ruled accidental. Gene W. Sult, 47, was drinking with friends about 9:15 p.m. Saturday in a home in the 100 block of Wayne Street when he began showing off his gun. Sult handed the gun to a friend and when it was handed back to him, he said, “Don’t be afraid, it’s got a double safety,” according to police reports. Sult then pointed the gun toward himself and began pulling the trigger. On about the fourth pull, the gun went off, striking him, the report...

LA CROSSE, WI (AP) -- Searchers combing the Mississippi River this month pulled out the body of basketball player Luke Homan - the eighth college-age man in nine years to disappear from a city tavern and turn up dead in a river. La Crosse officials have debated for years how to keep drunken students safe, but some say there may be no answer for a town with three colleges, three rivers and $3 pitchers of beer. "I'm not sure anything we do can prevent a future tragedy," Mayor Mark Johnsrud said.Some officials want to rein in the binge drinking culture....

Suicide haunts Linda Marquez . Three of her loved ones took their own lives - her mother, her husband, her son. No death could be more devastating to the people left behind, Linda said. The people who kill themselves may think the world is better off without them, "but they don't realize that what they're doing is leaving people with a life sentence, especially the people that love them the most," she said. Her son's death finally drove her to speak out. "I thought, this is too much. People need to know," she said. Experts estimate 1 million people attempt...

Just because you are on the go doesn’t mean you don’t need a recipe for a cocktail. Or 6,000. Drinknation will help you out. It’s a new mobile application which allows you to access 6,000 mixed drink recipes right off your phone. Available from most of the U.S. carriers and several international ones, with more being added as the word gets around. You can browse recipes by name, theme, ingredient or category. You can find out what is popular with all the cool kids. It even offers drinking games you can play. What's fun about Drinknation is that the content...

Of course, the Supreme Court decision has very little to do with wether or not pot is dangerous or helpful as medicine. It basically comes down to the question: Can the federal government tell the states which chemicals they have to ban? And yes, we fought a Civil War so that the federal government could tell the states exactly what to do - regardless of logic or local democracy. So last week the Supreme Court upheld Washington DC's unquestioned authority to create intrusive and illogical laws that are based on prejudiced perceptions above scientific reality. I can't really find any...

Benton Harbor, MI - Between 8 and 9 PM Sunday night, Benton Harbor police received calls of shots fired in a neighbor near the corner of McAllister and May Streets. Officers responded and found several hundred people who threw bottles and bricks at them. Police pulled out of the area for their own safety. Officials say they believe the calls of shot fired were false and were used to draw them into the crowded streets. They also say they now have a plan to deal with such situations. Benton Harbor Police Chief Samuel Harris says, "We believe this is an...

The Denver Post CU death blamed on alcohol By Jim Hughes Denver Post Staff Writer Tuesday, October 05, 2004 - University of Colorado freshman Lynn "Gordie" Bailey died from acute alcohol poisoning with a blood-alcohol level of 0.328 percent, the Boulder County coroner's office announced Monday. Bailey, 18, died after a Sept. 16 ritual for the Chi Psi fraternity involving wine and whiskey, Boulder police said. There were no other drugs in Bailey's system, according to coroner Tom Faure, who has ruled the death an accident. Faure's findings "speak for themselves," said Bailey's mother, Leslie Lanahan. "They say what...

Thu Jul 10, 1:45 PM ET A US soldier flashes the V-sign as he escorts hooded illegal vendors to a police station after being apprehended Thursday July 10, 2003 along the Tigris River in Baghdad, Iraq (news - web sites). The vendors were allegedly caught selling alcohol, still prohibited to be sold outside in Muslim Iraq. (AP Photo/Mikhail Metzel)

<p>Several weeks ago, Internet pundit Iain Murray described what he called "the new temperance," a movement aimed at curbing America's alcohol habit.</p> <p>Murray cited a particularly alarmist and misleading study claiming that "binge drinking" is on the rise.</p> <p>Murray's right. There is a new movement afoot, but its objectives go well beyond temperance. By all outward appearances, if the leaders of this new movement get their way, we may be headed for a modified, modernized prohibition.</p>

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