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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:100%">Illicit Beer Bottle Caps Bring Feds Down on Calif. Brewer</span>
Posted May 28, 2008, 05:42 pm CDT
By Martha Neil
A beer brewer in a small California town named after a founding citizen and state senator, Abner Weed, has incurred the wrath of federal regulators by his tongue-in-cheek use of the town's name on bottle caps to help brand his product.
"Try LEGAL weed," they suggest. Around the rim of the cap is the slogan "A friend in Weed is a Friend Indeed," reports the Los Angeles Times. The newspaper article also prominently features a large overhead photograph of three bottles.
The problem is, the three words in the center of the caps promote marijuana use, according to the U.S. Treasury Department's Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau. Plus they could also be confusing to consumers, by suggesting the beer contains an illicit substance, when it doesn't.
....</div> http://www.abajournal.com/weekly/illicit_b...on_calif_brewer
Posted May 28, 2008, 05:42 pm CDT
By Martha Neil
A beer brewer in a small California town named after a founding citizen and state senator, Abner Weed, has incurred the wrath of federal regulators by his tongue-in-cheek use of the town's name on bottle caps to help brand his product.
"Try LEGAL weed," they suggest. Around the rim of the cap is the slogan "A friend in Weed is a Friend Indeed," reports the Los Angeles Times. The newspaper article also prominently features a large overhead photograph of three bottles.
The problem is, the three words in the center of the caps promote marijuana use, according to the U.S. Treasury Department's Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau. Plus they could also be confusing to consumers, by suggesting the beer contains an illicit substance, when it doesn't.
....</div> http://www.abajournal.com/weekly/illicit_b...on_calif_brewer
