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In a decision that is sure to please some Detroit visitors, the Detroit City Council voted this week to allow people to drink alcohol on pedal pubs, those unusual-looking quadricycles found in cities nationwide. Until now, pedal pub customers who drank alcoholic beverages while on the cycles could have been cited for disorderly conduct under a 1984 ordinance. The newly amended ordinance mimics a state law passed in 2015 that defines commercial quadricycles as nonmotorized vehicles and thus subject to less onerous regulation. “It’s definitely been a long road, but Stephen and I are pumped that Detroit City Council worked...

A third of intensive care beds at weekends are taken up by patients critically ill from alcohol, according to the NHS’s head of critical care. Dr. Bob Winter said it had become socially acceptable for people to drink themselves into an “anesthetized state” on Friday and Saturday nights, and he also warned of the trend of “front-loading”—becoming intoxicated before going out. The prices at supermarkets and off-licenses were so cheap it was possible to buy enough alcohol to “die from” with a £10 note, he added. Dr. Winter called for an urgent change in the culture of drinking and said...

LONDON (AP) — Last call at a British pub can be like a contact sport, with a crush of drunken customers suddenly heaving toward the bar in search of one last round. It's a hallowed British tradition, and doctors say an increasingly dangerous one. Britain's taste for binge drinking, driven by a pub culture in which a good night out means packing in as many pints as possible before the traditional 11 p.m. closing time, could lead to a liver-disease epidemic within two decades unless Britons learn to drink more responsibly, authorities warned. "There's been a frightening increase in alcoholic...

Bill would card anyone buying booze GENESEE COUNTY THE FLINT JOURNAL FIRST EDITION Saturday, April 09, 2005 By Marjory Raymer Thinking of a glass of merlot? Get out your ID, no matter how many gray hairs and crows feet you've got. A proposed state law would require all drinkers to show identification every time they buy alcohol. What's more, anyone convicted of driving while intoxicated or impaired would get licenses in the same vertical format that are designed to prevent teen drivers from buying alcohol. It is part of an attempt by state Rep. John Stahl, R-Arcadia Twp., to ban...

Sept. 17 -- Americans may be getting used to the Terminator on the ballot. But can they handle his teenage fans in the voting booth? Laura Finstad says yes. She works, pays taxes, and has been a political activist for years. And she's finally won the right to vote in the United States. Her big accomplishment? Turning 18 last Saturday. Finstad fumes about the law that made her wait so long and is campaigning for the voting rights of younger teenagers. The teen is gathering signatures for a petition to lower the voting age in suburban Takoma Park, Md. "Young...

Wonder if there is any chance of this catching on here. Hey, we have people who want to pay certain voters millions in Arizona, why not? New Law Allows Drunks to Vote Fri Aug 1, 8:15 AM ET OSLO (Reuters) - It will be two pints of lager and a ballot, please, in Norway this year after a change in the law allowing voters to get drunk and then go out to vote. "The election board can no longer refuse anyone to vote because they are intoxicated," an adviser at the Local Government Ministry said Thursday. Until now, Norway's election...