I didn’t see the news this weekend, but luckily Blogtown Four Loko Correspondent Graham was on it: The OLCC has banned Four Loko in a special Saturday meeting. The ban also exiles other alcoholic energy drinks with outrageous names: Core High Gravity HG Green, Core High Gravity HG Orange, Lemon Lime Core Spiked, Moonshot, Joose, and MAX.
So much for my dream of drinking hot mulled MAX on the MAX this Thanksgiving!
The Oregon ban strikes the Loko from the shelves about a month before Four Loko will be decaffeinated in advance of a federal crackdown. The OLCC determined that the seven products it has banned are considered “‘adulterated’ products by the FDA because they contain the ‘unsafe food additive’ of caffeine.” Caffeine is an unsafe food additive? That calls for a poll!
Should Oregon Have Banned Four Loko?
I drink neither alcohol nor anything with caffeine (I know, I’m a horrible Portlander) but I say let natural selection take its course. We’re not stopping people from ordering vodka and Red Bull are we?
Gross doesn’t quite describe it. My tastebuds were scorched. Nothing tasted right the rest of the night.
For some reason I’m too sober and sleepy to protest this.
Where are the conservatives protesting big government?
I think rather than removing the caffeine or banning the drinks entirely, they should reduce the amount of alcohol in it. The problem isn’t so much the caffeine, it’s more that each can is equivalent to almost a bottle of wine (right?). There could be a law: drinks with an alcohol percentage of more than 6% can’t have caffeine in it. something like that…
These drinks are far safer than the norm from my college days “Jungle Juice” (a bucket full of Everclear & whatever juice concentrate that was on sale).
Kids these days are pussies.
Smirk, have you been getting drink stupidly?
I know I did this weekend, my ankle still hurts.
Shucks, the kids will now have to revert to the old standby of a bottle of MD 20/20 and stepped-on coke.
CAN MAKERS AND DIET BE NEXT??????
Night train and NoDoz is next.
ASSBUTTS! Words fail at how stupid this kneejerk scapegoating is.
I plan on starting a company that will effectively skirt these new laws by formulating a frozen version called Four Lokocicle.