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Brewer in Weed, Calif. told to stop using "Try legal Weed" slogan
In 2004, Vaune Dillmann moved from Milwaukee to Weed, Calif. and opened a brewery. He topped each of his beer bottles with a cap that reads: "Try legal Weed." The feds recently ordered him to stop using the caps. "It's misleading as to the possibility of what's in the beverage and possible effects of the beverage," says a spokesman for the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau. (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
May 7, 2008 | Permalink
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Our tax dollars at work!
Posted by: Sean, Torrington CT | May 7, 2008 11:02:20 AM
Wow a story about dumassedness in California with a link to Wisconsin.
Posted by: stopeatingmysesamecake | May 7, 2008 11:04:05 AM
This is the problem with our country - our agents are busying themselves harassing non-criminals! What a bunch of bullsh*t.
Posted by: Reno | May 7, 2008 11:06:53 AM
what's not misleading is that these type of Feds satire themselves. In other words, I guess the problems of the world are solved, and you have nothing more pressing than to pursue this nonsense, right guys?
Posted by: sometimesilie | May 7, 2008 11:12:32 AM
Actually, I'm wrong - its not California dumassedness, that would be dumassedness at the Federal level.
Posted by: stopeatingmysesamecake | May 7, 2008 11:16:37 AM
freedom of speech?
the WAR ON DRUGS ladies and gentlemen, more important than our constitution
Posted by: green | May 7, 2008 11:16:56 AM
"We interpret it as a drug reference," Art Resnick (ATTB)
Ha! Well, *I* intepret it as signal from my Alien Overlords that all CA ATTB employees MUST were aluminum foil hats ere their brains be destroyed by orbital mind control lasers.
Fat Sean you get a net, I'll get the Aluminum foil, and Soo, Cherie, Sometimesillie, G-Man, twerp, and Yucca--we'll all meet up in Fresno. The fate of those bureaucrats is in our...
On the other hand, you known I've got laundry to do, I'm sure Fat Sean is busy smoking or plotting the peaceful overthrow of the CT state assembly, Soo's sister got bit by a moose so maybe she had enough heartache...I'm pretty sure everyone is a little overbooked this week.
Posted by: nellagain | May 7, 2008 11:17:53 AM
Yeah, I just bought a house and I'm rennovating. Maybe in 18 years, nell.
Posted by: twerp | May 7, 2008 11:42:58 AM
hmmmm, i wonder what they think dick's sporting goods means.
Posted by: buddy | May 7, 2008 11:59:46 AM
Sorry Nell, I'm taking two evening classes and the regular job is pretty busy. Maybe in the fall?
Posted by: Sean, Torrington CT | May 7, 2008 12:04:55 PM
nell, can I bring my dog?
Posted by: sometimesilie | May 7, 2008 12:26:57 PM
beer....the cause of...and solution to all of life's problems.
Posted by: JJ | May 7, 2008 12:34:23 PM
Sean, their brains will be FRIED by then...and since its in CA it will make it virtually IMPOSSIBLE to tell them from everyone else.
STS: Can your dog make aluminum foil hats? I can bring my friend's cocker spaniel, who I am quite sure can be coaxed to change his perferred pee-target from police to ATTB ( so as to distract them while we jam the hats on them.)
You know this may well be a job for Homeland security.
Posted by: nellagain | May 7, 2008 12:41:00 PM
Nellagain, I can certainly put aside my sister's moose-bite pain in favor of your, um, crusade. After all, I'm a dedicated designated driver. Someone's got to get you all across the country in one piece!
Except I'm also a rather careless driver. So maybe you don't want me to drive, in which case we can take the bus. Just think of all the fun we'll have.
Oh, and Sean? Mister'll be eligible for retirement in less than 3 years. Anytime after that you want to overthrow an establishment (Walmart, McDonald's, a state assembly, etc) call me!
Posted by: Soo | May 7, 2008 12:45:58 PM
WAIT! The Government getting involved where it shouldn't be? I simply can't believe it!
Posted by: Cherie | May 7, 2008 12:47:17 PM
When the revolution comes, these douchbags will be the first against the wall. Well, maybe not the first, but they are definitely on my list now. The bus headed for the volcano is too nice for them.
Seriously, we are getting all this tainted poisoned food and toys from China, half the meat and a quarter of the spinach has e-coli, and these guys are worried about about a word on a bottlecap?
Posted by: steveO | May 7, 2008 2:11:08 PM
Luckily, this means that every other problem from terrorism to the 17 children abducted this week must be solved. Horay!!!! I mean they must be solved, right???? If we have time to persue this "dangerous criminal" and his obscene business. I amgine, selling a completely legal beverage in a completely legal manor and expecting to get away with it, The nerve!!!! Do you think we could ask for a tax refund for this????
Posted by: Opinion8ted | May 7, 2008 2:38:33 PM
I believe the soothing sounds of NOFX "Murder the Government" will calm some nerves here...nell, my dog can indeed make tin foil hats, as well as eat them. He'll eat yours to, if you want. Got any glasses? He'll eat them. Sunglasses? Those too...actually, those he'll just chew the rubber padding from the arms so when you put them on you'll jam your ears with jagged metal. There's a whole list of things he'll eat.
Unfortunately, the government is not one there. Too rotten, would make for too much indigestion.
Posted by: sometimesilie | May 7, 2008 2:43:00 PM
Alittle dog training in order? Somtimesilie?
Posted by: Cherie | May 7, 2008 3:17:32 PM
I've been pretty busy lately Nell...thanks for the invite. Sean and I will see in the fall.
Posted by: yucca | May 7, 2008 4:43:19 PM
"We have a Weed college here. We have a Weed high. We have a Weed elementary. We have a Weed police. We have a Weed city council, a Weed cemetery. Everything is Weed here," Dillmann said.
Greatest line in the whole article!
This entreprenuer has a great sense of humor that the Feds obviously do not have.
Posted by: Anna | May 7, 2008 5:11:30 PM
heck,move to Weed,NM..they'll never find you there..hahaha
Posted by: nunya | May 7, 2008 5:50:19 PM
"This Bud's for you" is ok, though.
Posted by: curtis corlew | May 7, 2008 6:21:12 PM
...and this is why I hate paying taxes. I'm tired of my hard-earned tax dollars going to overzealous, wasteful and mind-numbing stupidity.
Posted by: CryMeAriver | May 8, 2008 4:52:03 AM
The beer is more likely to harm someone than weed. Why do we even bother?
Posted by: Ted | May 8, 2008 4:52:48 AM
Reminds me of a cartoon I saw back during Clinton's administration. It showed Barry McCafrey (then U.S. DRUG CZAR) screaming at an elderly cripple smoking a joint: "I don't care if it cures cancer, AIDS, and the common cold; it's STILL marijuana!!"
Posted by: wank | May 8, 2008 5:16:48 AM
WEED MAKES IT WORK FOR ME
Posted by: ULTRA | May 8, 2008 7:36:53 AM
Shouldn't the Feds be out busting illegal meth labs or something instead of going after a businessman for having a sense of humor?
Posted by: Phranqlin | May 8, 2008 7:49:57 AM
