"Try Legal Weed" Beer?

By Panthers007 · Aug 6, 2008 · ·
  1. Panthers007
    Brewer Can Use "Try Legal Weed" Bottle Cap
    Alcohol Bureau Said Beer Bottle Message's Pun On Town Name Promotes Drug Use

    SACRAMENTO, Calif., Aug. 6, 2008

    (AP) A Northern California brewer who tangled with federal regulators over the caps on his beer bottles said Tuesday officials have given him permission to keep the message "Try Legal Weed."

    The Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau had ordered Vaune Dillmann to stop using the caps, which are a play on the name of the town where he brews his beer - Weed. The bureau said the message amounts to a reference to illegal drugs.




    The dispute started last winter after Dillmann sent the bureau Mt. Shasta Brewing Co.'s proposed label for its latest beer, Lemurian Lager.


    Since the dispute was publicized in April, Dillmann said he has received letters, phone calls and messages from more than 1,200 people around the world - including old friends and his high school football coach in his hometown of Milwaukee.

    "We have not had one even remotely negative comment," he said.





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  1. aerozeppelin123
    Lol you could cut through the irony with a knife...
  2. Bajeda
  3. cra$h
    what a sick play on words that quote is.....
  4. NeuroChi
  5. chinpokomaster
    So, in America, where you need to be 21 to drink alcohol, alcoholic drinks can't make reference to illegal drugs, but it's OK for films with 15 and 18 classifications to do so?

    Makes sense.
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