I am in complete agreeance with my classmate Madeline Shapland in the decision to legalize marijuana. When marijuana was first legalized for recreational use in Colorado it was said that Recreational Dispensaries were estimated to ring up a whopping 925 million in sales and 51 million in tax revenue. With that much money Texas could much more money invested into its Oh so proud reputation of having the highest number of executions.
But not only is marijuana economically better to legalize but it seems much the upcoming generations have a different view then their elder counterparts. With a current increase in the amount of people who are leaning to legalizing marijuana. A new survey finds that 53% favor the legal use of marijuana, while 44% are opposed. As recently as 2006, just 32% supported marijuana legalization, while nearly twice as many (60%) were opposed.
Saturday, May 16, 2015
Wednesday, May 6, 2015
Beer Vending Machines: A Drunken Step into the Future
So, as I am searching through the Internet I came across a unique and interesting title in the "The Daily Texan". This title was "Alcohol vending machines: the future of your Friday night ," as I am reading this all I can think to myself is, "well it was bound to happen sometime".
As stated in the article Rep. Richard Raymond (D-Laredo) is working to legalize the sell of alcohol in vending machines to establishments that allow the on location consumption of alcohol. Along with Vice chair Roland Gutierrez (D-San Antonio) who helped impose the bill on Monday. Gutierrez stated, "The customer must present an employee of the establishment with a valid ID, which is scanned into a database and tied to a customer’s credit card. The customer is then given a uniquely encoded wristband to access the machine. The bands would track the amount of alcohol consumed by a bar patron and limit alcohol intake. Vending machine users would be cut off after 30 ounces of beer, 10 ounces of wine or three ounces of liquor."
My first initial thoughts after reading this were that they seemed to have thought very thoroughly about the implantation of the vending machines which I was very enthusiastic to see, because honestly I was expecting some poorly thrown together plan of getting these machines into areas as soon as possibly, however, that turns out to not be the case at all. Although, there was one issue of being able to take off the wristband and giving it to a person under the age but no counter action was stated.
Another problem that was arisen was that many bartenders felt like it would affect the average amount of tips they receive since most of their pay is based off tips but Shane Ali, a biology senior who used to bartend house parties made a good point: "One of the reasons that people go to bars are for, like, their favorite shot or fancy shots that are being made instead of a glass of wine or a quick beer". From this, I don't believe that bartenders tips would really be affected all to much since even though the contents of the vending machines were not specified people do have a preference and would like to have a specific drink made for them.
Overall, I am on the fence about the implantation of alcoholic vending machines but I am willing to see where it goes based off the information I gather it seems like they did a good job implementing alcohol regulation and safety also not allowing easy access. So I am willing to see were it goes in the near future if they do happen to be placed in local bars and what not.
As stated in the article Rep. Richard Raymond (D-Laredo) is working to legalize the sell of alcohol in vending machines to establishments that allow the on location consumption of alcohol. Along with Vice chair Roland Gutierrez (D-San Antonio) who helped impose the bill on Monday. Gutierrez stated, "The customer must present an employee of the establishment with a valid ID, which is scanned into a database and tied to a customer’s credit card. The customer is then given a uniquely encoded wristband to access the machine. The bands would track the amount of alcohol consumed by a bar patron and limit alcohol intake. Vending machine users would be cut off after 30 ounces of beer, 10 ounces of wine or three ounces of liquor." My first initial thoughts after reading this were that they seemed to have thought very thoroughly about the implantation of the vending machines which I was very enthusiastic to see, because honestly I was expecting some poorly thrown together plan of getting these machines into areas as soon as possibly, however, that turns out to not be the case at all. Although, there was one issue of being able to take off the wristband and giving it to a person under the age but no counter action was stated.
Another problem that was arisen was that many bartenders felt like it would affect the average amount of tips they receive since most of their pay is based off tips but Shane Ali, a biology senior who used to bartend house parties made a good point: "One of the reasons that people go to bars are for, like, their favorite shot or fancy shots that are being made instead of a glass of wine or a quick beer". From this, I don't believe that bartenders tips would really be affected all to much since even though the contents of the vending machines were not specified people do have a preference and would like to have a specific drink made for them.
Overall, I am on the fence about the implantation of alcoholic vending machines but I am willing to see where it goes based off the information I gather it seems like they did a good job implementing alcohol regulation and safety also not allowing easy access. So I am willing to see were it goes in the near future if they do happen to be placed in local bars and what not.
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