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Caffeine + alcohol = problems for MillerCoors
Fellow blogger Laura Bischoff wrote earlier today, “Ohio Attorney General Nancy Rogers and 13 other state attorneys generals announced Thursday, Dec. 18, that they struck an agreement with MillerCoors to stop producing its best-selling “Sparks” and not produce any caffeinated alcoholic beverages in the future.”
Earlier this year the Lizards wrote about an overview of the potential dangers of energy drinks and statistics about who is using them and and with what effect from Roland Griffiths, a professor of behavioral biology and neuroscience at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, published in the Journal of Drug and Alcohol Dependence.
This deal reached with MillerCoors and another settlement reached in May with Anheuser-Busch over it’s line of alcoholic-energy drinks means that an astounding 85 percent of all alcoholic energy drinks that had been on the market at the beginning of 2008 will be gone according to Bischoff’s post.
Pretty amazing numbers there. I guess folks will just have to start mixing beer with Red Bull until they ban that too …
What do you think? Are you OK with the ban or are you outraged?
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