Marijuana and stoners have nowhere near the broad cultural reach compared to alcohol, as people have always sought a drink — even in the Prohibition era. But why is a joint any worse than the bathtubs of moonshine from the 30s?
While some ran laps, students at Boston University and surrounding schools celebrated, not with applause and cheers, but with bottles and booze. April 17 marks another holiday known by most as “MarMon”— an abbreviation for “marathon Monday,” though it mainly describes an all-day drinking fest.
The Boston City Council met Wednesday and discussed plans to increase the number of liquor licenses while separately restricting the sale of miniature alcohol bottles.
The state announced a training program on Feb. 17 to help local licensing authorities comply with federal laws, strengthen firearm inspection and prevent gun trafficking.
State legislators have pushed to raise taxes on alcohol in a legislative briefing on Feb. 9, backed by a December report that drinking caused almost 5% of all deaths in Massachusetts from 2015 to 2019.
Esports and video games are a great thing, and their communities have the potential to reflect that even more. However, they demonstrate with particular clarity the systemic factors that facilitate an epidemic of sexual assault. They are the same factors that plague our world outside of gaming, including our own lives as Boston University students.
