Word: alcoholisms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Beyond the fact that they do not taste like real wine, pop wines have much in common: they are cheap at about $1 a bottle, and their alcohol content is a minimal 11% or so. Another advantage: they add a pleasant extra dimension to the effects...
...Alcoholic Pop. Pot smokers alone cannot account for the phenomenal rise in pop-wine sales, which are now roughly estimated at $75 million a year. Despite the bonanza, there are still purists among the vintners. "I don't approve of these wines," says Sig Langstadter, wine buyer for Sandburg Super Mart in Chicago. "I don't think they should be considered wines. They're just soft drinks with alcohol...
Building on the hypothesis that bac-teria use chemotaxis to locate food, Fogel, Chet and Mitchell investigated the effects of chemical pollutants on bacterial sensing mechanisms. They found that many of the bacteria tested could not detect food when small, non-lethal amounts of organic chemicals such as alcohol's were added to the seawater...
...Overhaul. Some critics of the property tax argue that it is so fundamentally unfair that it ought to be abolished. Property taxes add an average 25% to the rent that tenants pay and the carrying costs that homeowners must meet-a higher tax than is found on anything except alcohol, cigarettes and gasoline. For all its shortcomings, the property tax certainly will not be abolished because nobody has devised an alternative way to raise so much revenue. Still, the entire system needs a considerable overhaul...
...Marihuana Reconsidered will likely argue that it is still too early to decide about the dangers of dope since "all the facts aren't in." Grinspoon disagrees with this attitude, arguing that enough experiments have been done to create a "strong impression" of the relative (to tobacco and alcohol) safety of marihuana. Meanwhile, the harm to young people done by punitive legislation and the harm to legal institutions caused by attitudes of mistrust among dope users are more damaging than the social use of marihuana could ever...