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...addition to the drinking age, there is a question of the supply of alcohol. Here, however, the problem is not with existing laws or their enforcement, but with the lack of laws. Very few cities have zoning laws that specifically affect liquor stores. Most zoning laws simply define an area as commercial, thereby allowing any type of commercial store to open in the area...
Without restricting the location of liquor stores, cities allow vendors to pray on the most vulnerable elements of society, the poor and the young. So long as the above steps are not taken, vendors will turn their profits by selling their wares to those who are least likely to understand the consequences of drinking and therefore to moderate their drinking...
...banning alcohol on campus does nothing about the dangers that lurk just outside. "You can have a perfect program on campus, but if you don't do anything about the liquor store across the street that sells to minors or the bar that serves intoxicated students, you haven't solved the problem," says William DeJong, a professor at the Harvard School of Public Health. The most important area for schools to focus on now, he says, is working with the larger community to ensure that students cannot abuse alcohol at private homes and bars...
DETROIT: St. Ides Brewing Co., purveyor of malt liquor in large bottles, has stopped distributing its product Special Brew Freeze and Squeeze, because of reports that a New York store was selling it to minors. The product, essentially a Slurpee with 6 percent alcohol content, sells for about a dollar and is packaged in brightly-lettered soft plastic pouches. St. Ides president Minott Wessinger denied the product was developed with any Joe Camel-like intentions. "We took the necessary steps to identify that this product was an alcoholic beverage, and listed this fact not just once, but four times...
...Grendel's won a U.S. Supreme Court decision overturning a Massachusetts law that gave churches and schools veto power over liquor license issuance within 500 feet of their property...