Alcohol Substitute?

Does this sound like good news or bad news to you?

An alcohol substitute that mimics its pleasant buzz without leading to drunkenness and hangovers is being developed by scientists.

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Anything you like, as long as it's rum.

"On a recent night at Roneria Caracas, a bar with its own name tucked inside a restaurant in Williamsburg named Caracas Brooklyn, a young woman with jet-black hair, a small barbell piercing her nose, and gashes in her earlobe from a former surfeit of earrings took a stool at the corner of the bar. “I like whiskey,” she announced to the bartender.

Gently, but without apology, the bartender replied, “I cannot make you anything with whiskey.”

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In case you were wondering...

... if it's time to start drinking yet, here's your answer.