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Michigan bans alcoholic energy drinks!

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The Michigan Liquor Control Commission on Thursday banned the drink Four Loko and dozens of similar alcoholic drinks from being sold in the state.





Known by some as "blackout in a can" for its combination of caffeine and 12% alcohol, Four Loko is one of 55 drinks that the state banned Thursday. A Melvindale teen said she consumed Four Loko before she said she was sexually assaulted last month.
The commission reversed its approval of all energy drinks that contain alcohol, citing safety reasons, and is giving manufacturers of the beverages 30 days to remove them from store shelves.

http://www.freep.com/article/201011...8/Four-Loko-other-drinks-banned#ixzz14OxI6NSR​






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After an alarming spike in student alcohol poisoning cases, Ramapo College administrators are banning the alcoholic energy drink known as Four Loko.


The ban comes after 16 students having been hospitalized with at least half of dozen involving the drink known by the nicknames “liquid cocaine” and “blackout in a can,” reports CBS 2 HD’s Kathryn Brown.
Ramapo College President Peter Mercer says his administration is worried about the high alcohol drink’s emergence on campuses.
“It’s very dangerous. Students who consume it become intoxicated very quickly, and we know it’s been banned at other colleges so we didn’t wait around for toxicology reports. We just banned it right away,” Mercer says.”It concerns us that this product is on the market because it certainly contributes to it.”
The drink comes in a 23.5 ounce can and is equal to drinking three beers, a can of Red Bull and a shot of espresso. Many of the Four Loko flavors contain 12 percent alcohol by volume, making it easy for those with even the highest level of tolerance to become intoxicated.
“I’ve seen guys—very big, who can have a high tolerance for alcohol, drink one and a half of these and not remember their entire night,” says senior Sara Rahimi.
The drinks are sold in a variety of fruit flavors, packaged inside brightly-colored cans and cost only about $2.50 each.
Junior Noah Luogameno says it’s a drink that will keep you up until the early morning.
“It makes you party all night long,” Luogameno says.
 
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You know...I'm normally a "let the stupid weed themselves out" kinda person...but putting that much alcohol combined with that much caffine...and then making it cheap and easy to drink is just asking for trouble.

At least with wine coolers you need to drink like 25 of them to feel a buzz. These are pretty wicked combos with a fairly high alcohol content. Giving them to college kids is like giving a 16 year old the keys to a Ducati motorcyle for his first vehicle.
 
$2.50 for the equivalent of three beers? If only you could remove all the energy crap... I think I'd like to try one at some point, RBVs don't do particularly much for me.
 
Hah, those things tear you up. I'm opposed to mixing huge amounts of sugar with alcohol, outside of a drink or two. I can drink quite a lot of vodka or whiskey and be fine for work at 7 in the morning provided I take an aspirin and drink 16oz of water before bed. Most people's hangover issues have to do with being dehydrated. Both sugar and alcohol are diuretics, leaving you dehydrated. Being dehydrated causes your body to take longer to process alcohol, and also causes the worst hangovers.
 
My room mate almost exclusively drinks Four Loko. He's the raver-type, and can seem to handle it. I think it tastes like medicine. He'll easily go through three in one night.
 
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Hah, those things tear you up. I'm opposed to mixing huge amounts of sugar with alcohol, outside of a drink or two. I can drink quite a lot of vodka or whiskey and be fine for work at 7 in the morning provided I take an aspirin and drink 16oz of water before bed. Most people's hangover issues have to do with being dehydrated. Both sugar and alcohol are diuretics, leaving you dehydrated. Being dehydrated causes your body to take longer to process alcohol, and also causes the worst hangovers.
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Yep. Even after a night of heavy drinking, chugging down a bottle of water or two before I hit the sack will pretty much always prevent a hangover.
 
Come on, there's no way a big guy blacks out after 1.5. They're essentially the equivalent of 4-5 beers. 660 calories though, so I try to avoid.

These taste way better than Joose, imo.
 
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You know...I'm normally a "let the stupid weed themselves out" kinda person...but putting that much alcohol combined with that much caffine...and then making it cheap and easy to drink is just asking for trouble.

At least with wine coolers you need to drink like 25 of them to feel a buzz. These are pretty wicked combos with a fairly high alcohol content. Giving them to college kids is like giving a 16 year old the keys to a Ducati motorcyle for his first vehicle.
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It's only 12% alcohol; basically wine. If those dumbasses haven't learned to read the side of a can, they deserve what they get. That stuff doesn't look much different than the high alcohol punches you'd always see at parties.
 
Every time I've drank these I've had the cops called on me. Although it's always the beginning of evening drink before I move onto real beers. I do need to avoid these though.
 
Analog said:
After an alarming spike in student alcohol poisoning cases, Ramapo College administrators are banning the alcoholic energy drink known as Four Loko.


The ban comes after 16 students having been hospitalized with at least half of dozen involving the drink known by the nicknames “liquid cocaine” and “blackout in a can,” reports CBS 2 HD’s Kathryn Brown.
Ramapo College President Peter Mercer says his administration is worried about the high alcohol drink’s emergence on campuses.
“It’s very dangerous. Students who consume it become intoxicated very quickly, and we know it’s been banned at other colleges so we didn’t wait around for toxicology reports. We just banned it right away,” Mercer says.”It concerns us that this product is on the market because it certainly contributes to it.”
The drink comes in a 23.5 ounce can and is equal to drinking three beers, a can of Red Bull and a shot of espresso. Many of the Four Loko flavors contain 12 percent alcohol by volume, making it easy for those with even the highest level of tolerance to become intoxicated.
“I’ve seen guys—very big, who can have a high tolerance for alcohol, drink one and a half of these and not remember their entire night,” says senior Sara Rahimi.
The drinks are sold in a variety of fruit flavors, packaged inside brightly-colored cans and cost only about $2.50 each.
Junior Noah Luogameno says it’s a drink that will keep you up until the early morning.
“It makes you party all night long,” Luogameno says.
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I would expel the students for not studying.
 
The gas station up the road sells one of these for 2.50$, lol same price as a red bull and you get 3+ beers worth of b00ze as well.

I pick one up every now and then, they do get ya where ya wanna be!!!
 
why the hell is alcohol allowed in so called energy drinks? Wouldn't that put it right under liquor category?
 
I've never seen this sold anywhere outside of the alchohol spectrum. It's next to sparks, and joose.
I used to smash down a Sparks before some classes to help keep me awake and not so bored.
 
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