'Legal Weed' is just beer, but Feds want to cap sales

L.A. Times ^ | 5/28/08 | Eric Bailey,

[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.

[roofer13]

Yes it is.The militarization of the police.Mr. Orwell called it.

[Redcloak]

I was searching for any updates to this story (None that I could find, BTW.) and ran across what has to be the funniest comment on our government's glorious actions. This comes from Eugene Volokh at The Volokh Conspiracy. In response to Federal claims that the beer's name could "mislead consumers about the characteristics of the alcoholic beverage" Volokh writes: "What next, going after Fat Weasel Ale on the grounds that the beer actually doesn't contain any fat weasels?".

[metesky]

I don’t know whether to laugh or cry.

[monday]

“This country has gone insane.”

Obviously. People are loopy. When children are suspended from school for a drawing of a gun and the people that did it aren't fired immediately like the people who are harassing this man should be, then you know that the generation in charge of this country is certifiably insane. All baby boomer's don't suck, but the majority of them do. They are the same type of people who would gas Jews if they were told it was politically correct. No capacity for independent thought and no moral compass. They are stupid amoral cows who simply moo and go along with the herd.

[elkfersupper]

Amen.