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FDA orders manufacturers to prove caffeinated alcoholic beverages are safe

Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ordered 30 companiesto prove that their caffeinated alcoholic beverages products are safe. You&...
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Legal Drinking 2.0, 75 years and counting

The 75th anniversary of legal drinking is next Friday, when we will celebrate the ratification of the 21st Amendment, which ended Prohibition. This...
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Celebrate 75 years of legal drinking on December 5

Legal drinking celebrates its 75 anniversary four weeks from today, on Friday, December 5th.The Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the...
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Methinks hizzoner doth protest too much

Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley went a little nuts the other day on the subject of lowering the drinking age. Was he channeling some issue with one...
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Yep, Prohibition still doesn't work

It's a headline on the front page of today's Examiner, the Chicago Tribune, and undoubtedly many other outlets: "College Presidents Seek Lower...
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Senator Steans, still bragging about her non-solution to a non-problem

Although she downplayed it in an email to me, writing that "there are far more serious problems we need to tackle," Illinois State...
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You have to fight for your right to party

I wrote on Friday about recent proposals made by the National Consumers League (NCL) regarding alcohol policy. I may not agree with everything they...
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