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Too much vanilla extract can do more than give your custard an aftertaste. It can also give you a police record. Alcohol: Forbidden for Drivers, Mandatory for Vanilla Federal law states that vanilla extract must be at least 35 percent alcohol, and have 100 grams of vanilla beans per litre. 35 percent alcohol is 70 …
Like many areas of the country, Pima County, in south central Arizona, is struggling with a drunk driving problem. But, like the state as a whole, it is determined and resourceful in its anti-DUI efforts. These efforts include strengthening – and decentralizing – DUI patrols. Up to now the Pima Sheriff’s Department ran its DUI …
We, of course, would never drive drunk. We don’t hold with drunk driving, and would not let our friends drive drunk either. But somehow, millions do just that. Millions? If that sounds extreme, you might be thinking of the 10,000 people who die each year as a result of impaired driving. But the number of …
What is the purpose of punishing a drunk driver? Often it’s rehabilitation – if an offender can see the recklessness of the decision to drink and drive, he or she might change and start to drive responsibly. For that reason, DUI sentences usually include an educational element – a DUI class, evaluation, or counseling. They …
Every once in a while a news story circulates about a person who was pulled over for drunk driving, tested, and found to be over the legal intoxication limit – despite having had nothing to drink. The offender in question was a victim of auto-brewery syndrome, a rare medical condition in which food in one’s …
The stakes are high in the competition to end drunk driving. Lives hang in the balance, as a matter of fact. For this reason, we need to single out states that do a good job keeping drunk drivers off the road. That’s what the website WalletHub does each year. Last week it released its annual …
We often look at the damage drunk drivers do in terms of themselves – they get killed and injured – and others. And impaired driving is responsible for some 10,000 deaths each year, and 290,000 injuries – that’s an injury every two minutes. But the decision to drink and drive can cost us in other …
There are those who think that drunk driving legislation in the US has gotten out of hand. In particular, some people rail against the .08 blood alcohol limit for intoxication, which is the national standard. Others think that a first DUI should not be such a big deal. Ignition interlocks, they say – devices which …
