Is banning Hi-Alcohol Drinks Constitutional?

Well, it looks like the whining f****ts will get their way

Thank gwad the pussies of the world run everything and can protect us from ourselves from evil vices like caffeinated beer and flavored cigarettes.:rolleyes:
This ban will solve nothing! It’s not as if someone can’t just pop a couple of No Doze while drinking malt liquor. DUH!:smack:

I would opine that just about any similar mixed drink short of one of those little freebies in Vegas has way more alcohol than that. We used to make 32 oz rum and cokes with probably 5-6 ounces of rum in them for home party purposes.

Mountain Dew was allegedly intended to be a whiskey mixer, although I can’t find any authoritative cite. Sounds kinda tasty, honestly.

Here you go.

Before I met my wife I had dated a girl that liked root beer and brandy. I like root beer and I like brandy. But I didn’t care for the two together.

Yeah, I found that, but I’m not sure I’d call it authoritative. Good enough, I suppose.

This is pointless. Banning the drinks simply creates a poor precedent.

Now, a ban on marketing to teens, that I can get behind.

It’s not just the alcohol or the caffeine, or the size of the can, or the marketing, it’s the four of them combined. For whatever reason there’s a lot of built up hype about 4 Loko and it’s wildly popular. I see lots of people drinking it who normally don’t binge on vodka Red Bulls because drinking 4 Loko is the thing to do these days. I’m not going to give an opinion on whether or not it should be banned, but it should be considered as a separate category from traditional mixed drinks.

When they banned flavored cigarettes the argument was “kids may want to try these because of the fruit flavors”. Kids can’t legally smoke, so are we going to ban everything adult so kids can’t do it? All liquor, all guns, driving, screwing, etc.?

Once again the liberty of everyone is curtailed using the actions of the few (and the stupid) as an excuse to do so. This country is really getting stupid.

How do you tell the difference between marketing to teens vs marketing to people in their 20s?

Um… you do know I was agreeing with you, right?

Yes. I was just showing an example of how pointless (as you said) these bans are and how ridiculous their reasoning is.

Opine away :wink:

Everyone mixes their drinks differently at home. I was just using the typical bar formula (1-1/2 oz shots) as some kind of standard. Actually, I was looking through a commercial barware catalog the other day, and it had shot glasses and pour spouts at everything from 1-1/2 ounce measures down to 7/8 ounce.