Alcohol
Why Your Dreams Are Suddenly So Intense After You Stop Smoking Weed
According to a neurologist and somnologist, weed suppresses REM sleep—but it comes back with a vengeance if you take a pot hiatus.
A Pennsylvania Nurse Worked a Surgery While Totally Wasted
When he was called in for an emergency appendectomy just before midnight, nurse Richard Pieri made it in to work, alright—but not before stumbling through the parking lot in a state of total drunkenness and struggling to log into his work’s basic...
Activists Want to Send These Alcoholic Russian Bears to Rehab in Romania
The bears have been held captive for over 20 years in a garbage-strewn cage outside of a Sochi restaurant, whose owner allowed patrons to give the bears alcoholic beverages.
A Giant Booze Company Is Telling Ireland to Drink Less
I can't help feeling that the Stop Out-of-Control Drinking campaign is a little misguided.
You Should Be Drinking Your Weed
The world of marijuana-infused edibles is quickly exploding—but why stop at pot brownies? We've got six recipes for weed-charged cocktails right here for your drinking pleasure.
What's the Safest Way to Get Home When You're Sloshed?
Studies have found that driving, walking, cycling, and using public transportation can be dangerous when you're drunk. So what the hell are you supposed to do?
This Man Wants to Make a Dirty Pint With Your Apples
A London drinks-maker is transforming the city’s unwanted and unloved apples into craft cider.
Green Dragon (Cannabis-Infused Liquor) Recipe
These are fancy words for heating up marijuana and alcohol at a low temperature to make an infusion. Nitrous oxide forces THC into the alcohol. Voila: weed vodka.
New Research Suggests Pot Is the Least Deadly Recreational Drug
Cannabis was also found to be the drug least likely to kill you of all 10 commonly used substances analyzed in the study published recently in Scientific Reports journal.
This Could Be Why You're Painfully Sober After a One-Night Stand
Researchers in Australia have found that it's way harder to be a drunk idiot if you're all jacked up on hormones—namely, oxytocin: "the cuddle chemical."
The Great British Tradition of Drinking on Trains Is Under Threat of Extinction
The Rail Safety and Standards Board is worried that UK citizens are getting so hammered on train platforms they're a danger to themselves.
Becherovka Is Better Than Cough Syrup
With its origins as a medicine, Becherovka is akin to Fernet, Unicum, Jägermeister, and Chartreuse. It’s herbal, it’s bitter, and it’s the antithesis of everything that’s pleasant and enjoyable, but some people manage to love it.