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The horror! The danger! The overreaction!
    #8519220 - 06/13/08 11:09 AM (15 years, 11 months ago)

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Methamphetamine is out of control in America. Addiction to prescription drugs is growing. Marijuana gardens patrolled by armed men are hidden around the forests where residents of our region ought to be hiking.

But rest assured, the government has a grip on the real scourge of the land: beer bottle caps in Weed, Calif.

Yup. It is after a retired cop turned brewer who topped his bottles of Weed Ales with a cap that says "Try Legal Weed."

This would be funny — we could all have a chuckle and move on — except that Mt. Shasta Brewing Co. owner Vaune Dillmann says the government effort could put him out of business.

Let's back up for a moment. Is Dillmann, now that he's retired from the police force, trying to lead impressionable young hops fans down the path to drug addiction?

That's a real stretch. What is likely is that he, like just about everyone trying to make money in this recovering Northern California logging town of 3,000, is looking for something catchy to get him by.

In Weed, that something is often the town's name, also common slang for marijuana. Weed businesses sell "Get high on Weed" T-shirts, and a placard on the way out of town announces "Temporarily Out of Weed." Some students get a kick from telling friends they're graduates of Weed High, and the town gamely named its annual holiday lighting event the Light Up Weed contest.

So when Dillmann jumped aboard with the "Try Legal Weed" topper to his beer bottles, he could hardly have expected the slogan — a call to follow the law, after all, not break it — to bring on the wrath of the government.

But bring on the wrath it did. The federal response, straight out of a scene from the 1936 shock film "Reefer Madness" (cue stern-voiced narrator):

"We consider it to be a drug reference," a spokesman for the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau told the Los Angeles Times in a recent story, "and find it to be false and misleading to the consumer in terms of what may or may not be the properties contained within that product."

Here we have a fine illustration of one of the many problems with the government's war on drugs: emphasize the meaningless while problems that matter — drug trafficking along Interstate 5, for example — grow unabated.

Federal money spent on drugs ought to go to the real issues. They endanger all of us, lead to crime and harm families and communities.

And those bottle-top messages? We're willing to bet uncapping a Weed Ales bottle won't represent anyone's first step down the road to a meth habit.

Hopefully they won't leave a law-abiding brewery owner crying in his beer, either.


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