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'Legal Weed' is just beer, but Feds want to cap sales
L.A. Times ^
| 5/28/08
| Eric Bailey,
Posted on 05/28/2008 7:25:49 PM PDT by Rebelbase
WEED, Calif. — This town is in a tempest over a bottle top.
The federal government is telling the owner of a small brewery here that the pun he's placed on caps of his Weed Ales crosses a line.
The U.S. Treasury Department's Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau says those three little words allude to marijuana use.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: beer; bigbrother; govwatch; homebrew; marines; wod; wodlist
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"On the bottle caps in question, "Try Legal Weed" is surrounded by the slogan "A Friend in Weed Is a Friend Indeed." To Dillmann's supporters, that spells civic boosterism, not drug pushing.
The bottle-top slogan of a brewer with a head for business in Weed, Calif., draws a warning from U.S. drug watchdogs. All he's pushing is a respectable local enterprise, backers say."
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posted on
05/28/2008 7:25:49 PM PDT
by
Rebelbase
To: Rebelbase
Hmmmm....Legal Weed...hmmm...Arghhmm....
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posted on
05/28/2008 7:31:18 PM PDT
by
Rebelbase
(McCain: The Third Bush Term ?)
To: Rebelbase
The Feds are saving us from falling into a life of drug-addled debauchery just by reading a bottle cap.
To: Rebelbase
Sounds like another federal agency in dire need of a deadwoodectomy to me.
-Eric
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posted on
05/28/2008 7:33:31 PM PDT
by
E Rocc
(Resident smartass and Myspace Freepers group moderator. (http://groups.myspace.com/freepers))
To: Rebelbase
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posted on
05/28/2008 7:37:30 PM PDT
by
Liberty Valance
(Keep a simple manner for a happy life)
To: Rebelbase
I was just thinking how much I’d like a central authority to protect me and my family from subversive bottle caps. Must be my lucky day.
To: E Rocc; traviskicks
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posted on
05/28/2008 7:39:22 PM PDT
by
dcwusmc
(We need to make government so small that it can be drowned in a bathtub.)
To: Rebelbase
This country has gone insane.
There are way too many "law enforcement" officers.
This is an example of the thought police in action.
To: Rebelbase
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posted on
05/28/2008 7:48:50 PM PDT
by
FReepaholic
(Me no bottom man. Me top man.)
To: Rebelbase
They’re just weeding out the undesirables.
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posted on
05/28/2008 7:48:55 PM PDT
by
writer33
(The U.S. Constitution defines a conservative and Rush Limbaugh knows it.)
To: Gabz
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posted on
05/28/2008 8:00:30 PM PDT
by
lesser_satan
(Cthulu '08! Why vote for the lesser evil?)
To: Rebelbase
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posted on
05/28/2008 8:10:39 PM PDT
by
tired1
(responsibility without authority is slavery!)
To: Liberty Valance
That isn’t a “Freak Brothers” cartoon is it?
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posted on
05/28/2008 8:15:08 PM PDT
by
FlJoePa
(Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good.)
To: Rebelbase
The U.S. Treasury Department's Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau says those three little words allude to marijuana use. The rump of the BATF that's left in treasury.
Comforting, (NOT!) to know they have the same jack booted thug mentality as their former brethren in BATFE over in Justice.
My answer would be "show me the law" and "show me the regulation" (only regulations in effect when the named their brew count). If they can't, the court's will not be amused. Can you say "violation of the first amendment", among other parts of the Constitution? I know you can.
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posted on
05/28/2008 8:22:35 PM PDT
by
El Gato
("The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
To: FlJoePa
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posted on
05/28/2008 8:23:32 PM PDT
by
JimC214
To: Rebelbase
This kind of insanity is why we need judges who believe in the Constitution. Alas, they are in pretty short supply.
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posted on
05/28/2008 8:28:48 PM PDT
by
VR-21
To: elkfersupper
There are way too many "law enforcement" officers. Oh these guys aren't "law enforcement" they are tax collectors. Armed I'm sure, but tax collectors nonetheless.
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posted on
05/28/2008 8:31:38 PM PDT
by
El Gato
("The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
To: Rebelbase
those three little words allude to marijuana use Thought Crime?
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posted on
05/28/2008 8:32:46 PM PDT
by
El Gato
("The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
To: Liberty Valance
did I really see the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers, or am I hallucinating?
;)
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posted on
05/28/2008 8:33:48 PM PDT
by
Old Student
(We have a name for the people who think indiscriminate killing is fine. They're called "The Bad Guys)
To: tired1
Good analogy. I guess speed shops will have to change their names too.
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posted on
05/28/2008 8:34:13 PM PDT
by
Rebelbase
(McCain: The Third Bush Term ?)
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