Cocaine: The Drink

[MrRant]

Anti-drug campaigners today attacked the makers of a soft drink who have called their product cocaine.

 

The high-energy drink is being billed as a "legal alternative" to the class A drug, using a massive hit of caffeine instead of cocaine.

 

Its maker claims the title is "a bit of fun" but critics slammed the technique as a cynical ploy which could tempt young people into using drugs.

 

The drink's inventor, Jamie Kirby, said: "It's an energy drink, and it's a fun name. As soon as people look at the can, they smile."

 

He claims Cocaine is "350 percent stronger than Red Bull" but that people do not experience the "sugar crash" or jitters that he says some of the other energy drinks can produce.

 

But David Raynes, of the UK National Drug Prevention Alliance, said: "It is people exploiting drugs. It is a pretty cynical tactic exploiting illegal drugs for their own benefit."

 

Las Vegas-based drinks company Redux Beverages is producing the drink which contains 280 milligrams of caffeine. According to the company's website, the only way to get more caffeine per ounce is with an espresso.

 

Mr Raynes added: "The fact is that subliminally, it is making the image of drug use cool and that's what kids what to be, cool.

 

"Kids will be drinking Cocaine and will inevitably link the two. The drink is relatively innocuous, but they will be linking it with cocaine use and the market, which is far from innocuous."

 

Dr Charles O'Brien, a professor and vice chairman of psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania, said: "It's just a bad idea and has all the same downsides of too much caffeine plus a very bad name."

 

The company has received inquiries about selling Cocaine in Britain and throughout Europe. At the moment it is being sold only in the Los Angeles and New York metropolitan areas - mainly to teenagers.

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/arti...in_page_id=1770

[CanadianChris]

Oh, I thought this was a thread about:

 

[alfdogg]

 

"It gives me WINGS!"

[gWIL]

I want some. That's just damn good marketing.

[FroGG_NeaL]

 

"It gives me WANGS!"

 

 

EFA

[Guest Felonies!]

Shouldn't he be holding Gay Fuel if it gives him wangs?

[iggymcfly]

I'm just disappointed there's no real cocaine in it. You can't really compare the rush from a bunch of caffeine to doing some fresh lines of coke.

[Dobbs 3K]

They had a hilarious story about this on the Daily Show. They showed some black people protesting the drink, saying it was targeted at minorities, and the guy behind the product said "If we were targeting minorities, we would've called it 'Crack' instead". He was completely serious, too.

[Dandy]

Anyone read the article in Maxim a few months back where they traveled to South America to taste the soda that was made from the coca plant? They managed to smuggle a couple back to the office.

[Hank Kingsley]

I tried it, and it's horrible. It's supposedly a cherry flavor, but you wouldn't know from the fucking burn as it goes down your throat. I guess they really do want to simulate the experience. It's near-painful.

 

Not even worth it, because despite claiming to be 3.5 Red Bulls, I didn't really feel any difference. Unless my caffeine tolerance is that insanely high.

[The Niggardly King]

Supes, it's like the real thing... you can't just have one... to get the real experience you gotta down 4 or 5 of these things.

[Special K]

Shit, my new potato chip "Meth pussy embezlment" might tank.

 

I'm waiting for the energy drank named 'adultary and extortion.'

 

Yeah, it's an overreaction, but if they sold "Marijuana" cigarettes I'd expect them to be banned. I mean, they knew they would be banned. It won't affect them too much, unless they were retarded and weren't planning for it. Soon we'll get "cxaine. For the erudite, artistic man who likes to feel somewhate jittery."

 

Course I think weed should be legal. And Coke was coke. 7up was Lithium.

[Jaxxson Mayhem]

Anyone read the article in Maxim a few months back where they traveled to South America to taste the soda that was made from the coca plant? They managed to smuggle a couple back to the office.

 

 

Yup. I read that article. Shit, they'd better take some home with em after making such an effort just to try em.

[Jaxxson Mayhem]

They had a hilarious story about this on the Daily Show. They showed some black people protesting the drink, saying it was targeted at minorities, and the guy behind the product said "If we were targeting minorities, we would've called it 'Crack' instead". He was completely serious, too.

 

 

No shit. He really said that? I gotta see a clip of him saying that.

[Special K]

Well shit, you can import or make Absinthe easily, and that's the shit.

 

They have a Wormwood free Absinthe called Absenthe IIRC.

 

THough Absinthe is the most unholy shit you can drink.

[In Credible]

They had a hilarious story about this on the Daily Show. They showed some black people protesting the drink, saying it was targeted at minorities, and the guy behind the product said "If we were targeting minorities, we would've called it 'Crack' instead". He was completely serious, too.

 

 

No shit. He really said that? I gotta see a clip of him saying that.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugDO5-yjwrg

[Jaxxson Mayhem]

They had a hilarious story about this on the Daily Show. They showed some black people protesting the drink, saying it was targeted at minorities, and the guy behind the product said "If we were targeting minorities, we would've called it 'Crack' instead". He was completely serious, too.

 

 

No shit. He really said that? I gotta see a clip of him saying that.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugDO5-yjwrg

 

 

Thanks.

 

 

 

Wooooooooooooooooooooow. That guy has to be fucking clueless to do that interview and say what he said.