Brewer may be fined because of bottle cap

legal weed
Here’s the short version.
There’s a town in California named Weed. There’s a brewer in the town of weed who put caps on his bottles that read “try legal weed.” This was intended as a way of drawing attention to the product and as a bit of a joke.

The U.S. Treasury Department’s Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau says those three little words allude to marijuana use.

Dillmann’s label faux pas, Art Resnick (ATF spokesweenie and all around bureaucratic buffoon) said, was twofold: “We consider it to be a drug reference, and find it to be false and misleading to the consumer in terms of what may or may not be the properties contained within that product,” Resnick said.

Read the entire article here.

Drug reference?? —You can buy the good shit in a six pack up that way?
May not be the properties contained within that product?? —-Anybody who is so far gone that they think beer contains marijuana is too F***ed up to read the label anyway.

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One Response to Brewer may be fined because of bottle cap

  1. michaelm says:

    Why am I not totally surprised by the government’s reaction?
    Shit, they need to get a sense of frickin’ humour . . .
    Good call.
    ~m

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