Calif. brewer ordered to stop using 'Legal Weed' bottle caps

[The Straight Story]

Calif. brewer ordered to stop using 'Legal Weed' bottle caps
The Associated Press
Published: April 24, 2008

SACRAMENTO, Calif.: Vaune Dillmann thought the wording on his bottle caps was just a clever play on the name of the Northern California town where he brews his beer — Weed.

Federal alcohol regulators thought differently. They have ordered Dillmann to stop selling beer bottles with caps that say "Try Legal Weed."

While reviewing the proposed label for Dillmann's latest beer, Lemurian Lager, the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau said the message on the caps he has been using for his five current beers amounts to a drug reference.

In a letter explaining its decision, the agency, which regulates the brewing industry, said the wording could "mislead consumers about the characteristics of the alcoholic beverage."

Dillmann scoffs at the notion that his label has anything to do with smoking pot.

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/04/23/america/Beer-Bottle-Dispute.php

[Squatch]

1. ...

[Wizard777]

4. Yeah. and apparently that bud will make you wiser.

[Winterblues]

13. Only if it had the word "Legal" in front of it

If the guy just named his beer Weed Beer it probably would not raise a ruckus...

[no_hypocrisy]

2. Guess he can't replace the name with Tijuana Gold then, huh?

[Echo In Light]

3. Out of all the harmful, evil shit available and encouraged, idiots still worry about Devil's Weed

[YOY]

5. and in medical news: Marijuana still safer and less addictive than alchohol

and the legal news: free speach is still an issue with assholes.

[Echo In Light]

7. No doubt about it

[DemocratInSoCal]

11. That Movie Was So Right On In It's Prediction

"They Live" is the perfect example of our society today. So many are Brainwshed MORONS from another planet.

[Elspeth]

6. So why haven't they gone after Coca-Cola?

Clear cocaine reference AND there's a real history there.

[Javaman]

15. money and lots of lawyers. nt

[Elspeth]

18. I wonder how we could bring Coke to its knees as a purveyor of drug messages

Get some of the Christofacists mad?

[Javaman]

19. if you can just find a way to link coke with satanism, you will be all set. lol nt

[tridim]

8. The inverse would be just as stupid

It'd be like labelling a hypothetical pack of "marijuana cigarettes" as, "Get wasted and beat up your family!"

Alcohol is nothing like Cannabis.

[NV Whino]

9. Well, for gawd's sake

just change the name of the town. Stupid damn name anyway.

[Indenturedebtor]

10. Some people

Need to get hit in the head with a hammer... and then kicked out of public life. I'm sure this can be traced back to one stupid bureaucrat with a stick up his/her ass.

[AlCzervik]

12. "Misleads consumers" really? so when i drink Pyramid ale it isn't full of mummys?

i mean thats what's on the label so now i'm being mislead, the bottle just contains ale?

[ProfessorGAC]

17. No. That One Is Full Of Mummies

Seriously. Not Kidding! Full of mummies. Cannibals love it.
The Professor

[RedCappedBandit]

14. Know what else is misleading?

Calling the USA "the land of the free"

[Karenina]

16. Or "home of the brave."

:rofl:

[Echo In Light]

20. LOL ...home of the...