One good thing about big social gatherings being cancelled this holiday season is you’re gifted the absence of morning-after booze blues. You can look forward to no longer agonizing over every minute detail you shared with a quasi-acquaintance at your friend’s work holiday party the second you wake up. Nor worrying whether you spoke too […]
Alcoholism
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Weed and alcohol are too close for comfort in Nova Scotia
The Federal Task Force on Cannabis Legalization and Regulation recommends cannabis be sold separately from booze, in stand-alone stores. That’s the way PEI and New Brunswick are gonna deal with legal weed. It’s an approach endorsed by multiple studies explaining how THC and alcohol exacerbate each other’s effects and intensify injury and fatalities when mixed, […]
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Sober sociables isn’t an easy game to play
[Image-1] On a cold Friday night, Nathaniel Crocker sits on an unkempt dorm bed, occasionally changing the song being played on the laptop. As is the unsaid tradition for students all around Halifax, Friday is a night of festivities marked primarily by drinking in dorm rooms. For the 21-year-old Crocker, weekends look a little different. […]
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Find an Alley!
To the 20-something guy on North Park Street, lying face down in a puddle of alcoholism: I get that it’s Saturday night, and that drinking is fun. But, if you feel the need to get so intoxicated that you pass out in public, at least do it under the concealment of some well placed garbage […]