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NEWS ABOUT: Weed, Calif.

Weed, Calif. stories: 3 news summaries

Calif. Brewer Wins Fight
to Sell 'Legal Weed'

Feds reverse course on double-entendre bottle cap after 6 months of bad publicity

Sep 2, 08 1:27 PM CDT
(Newser) - Vaune Dillmann can market his beer from the small California town of Weed with the slogan "Try Legal Weed" after regulators backed off what could have been a drawn-out court battle, the Los Angeles Times reports. The feds tried to block Dillmann, citing a law prohibiting drug references on... More »

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California • weird • marijuana • court cases • slogans • weed • Mt. Shasta • Weed, Calif.

OPINION

Federal Alcohol Labeling Rules Don't Go
Down Easy

'Thought crime' agency a headache for sellers

Jul 24, 08 2:05 AM CDT
(Newser) - Energy drink makers can give their products names like Cocaine and Speed Freak, and it's fine for a perfume to be called Opium. But when a California microbrewer from the tiny town of Weed submitted an application for a new beer to the federal Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade... More »

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alcohol • beer • bureaucratic blunders • Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau • Weed, Calif.

'Legal Weed' Beer Slogan
Has Feds Hopping Mad

Brewer in Weed, Calif., told to scrap his caps

May 28, 08 8:32 PM CDT
(Newser) - The feds are cracking down on a small brewer in Weed, Calif., because they're very much unamused by the slogan on his bottle caps: "Try Legal Weed." A bureau of the Treasury Department says the phrase not only alludes to marijuana but misleads consumers about the ingredients of... More »

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California • beer • marijuana • slogans • microbrewing • weed • Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau • Weed, Calif.

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