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Bee-otched For: trying to bring back prohibition
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Bee-otched For: trying to bring back prohibition
Over the past few decades, politicians like Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush have done their damndest to bring back the Great Depression.Thanks to their tax breaks for the wealthy and not the middle class, the economic blowout of 2008 was just waiting to happen, and it did.
But now, one of the leading factors to the Depression might be making a great big comeback: prohibition.
Thanks to some old ladies who never smiled and were holier-than-thou Jebus freaks, prohibition was the law. End result, many breweries either shut down or did something else, like make ice cream or near beer. But the Great Depression began, and jobs HAD to be created. So in 1933, as part of the New Deal, President Roosevelt threw out prohibition and the fine folks at Anheuser-Busch gave him a case of Budweiser as a thank you.
Yes, I hate to say it, but prohibition's making somewhat of a comeback. Case in point: Four.
Four is an alcoholic energy drink made by former Ohio State University students in Chicago. It comes in two varieties: Maxed (10% ABV) and Loko (6% or 12%, depending on the state it's sold). However, it's under a lot of scrutiny because of an incident at Ramapo College in New Jersey where several people got sick drinking the beverage at a party. As a result, many colleges and universities have warned their students about the drink and even some states - including my state of Michigan - are going to ban the sale of alcoholic energy drinks. As a result, Four has announced that they are going to exclude caffeine from their drinks.
The reason for the uproar over alcoholic energy drinks is simple: mixing alcohol and caffeine is almost like mixing heroin and cocaine. heroin is a relaxant while cocaine speeds you up. Look at John Belushi: he died from a speedball, which is a mixture of the two. In the case of caffeine and alcohol, it's almost the same. When one drinks a alcoholic energy drink, the caffeine will allow one to drink more and more drinks, but the thing is, caffeine leaves the system quicker than alcohol, and you'll end up with the world's worst hangover.
OK, so it's now not OK here in Michigan to buy alcoholic energy drinks. So, is it OK to go to the bar and order a Jagerbomb (a shot of Jagermeister and a Red Bull or Monster, depending on the bar)? How a vodka and Red Bull? Say! How 'bout a good 'ol fashioned Long Island Iced Tea?
My point is, this is once again Big Brother telling us that we can and can't put in your body. Yes, I think people need to be careful about what they put inside them, but I think what will happen is that people will go to the store and actually buy these drinks just to check 'em out. Same thing with marijuana; it's illegal, but people smoke doobies anyway.
It's my body, not the government's.
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