Word: alcoholisms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This is not to imply, as pot propagandists do, that marijuana should be legalized. If you were inventing a new society, perhaps. You might prefer the intoxicant of choice to be marijuana, since alcohol can be more physically damaging and addicting. But such considerations are irrelevant to deciding what society ought to do about marijuana today. We are not inventing a new society. There is such a thing as history. We have millenniums of experience with alcohol. It is ineradicably part of our culture. The question today is not Will it be alcohol or marijuana? The only relevant question...
...steal alcohol, the older brother comes across a drunk, who asks his name but then tells...
...AIDS, the Persian Gulf war, Evangelist Jimmy Swaggart's recent Brazilian tour. What distinguishes the occasion is its civility. Even the singing of hymns at the service seems contained. Perhaps the restraint stems partly from the absence of hard liquor and beer. "As practicing Protestants, many of us think alcohol is unholy and unhealthy," says John Homer Steagall, 68, a retired Singer sewing-machine general manager. "So drinking at the reunion is highly frowned upon...
...good deal for all of us," I was not talking only about the graduate students whom we will be hiring, as the context suggested. This new system is, in fact, a good deal for the undergraduates as well, because it allows the College to continue to sponsor parties where alcohol is served, albeit to a smaller group of students...
...point of the new policy is this: It is irrelevant to compare the previous systems to new system, since the previous systems are now illegal. Rather, we have to compare th enew system to the only alternative, which woul dbe the elimination of alcohol laws of Massachusetts. those are the stark choices. This new policy, therefore, allows the maximum choice of drinking at College parties within a very severe outside constraint. I am confident that we can all make it work. Neil H. Buchanan