War on Four Loko Over; Battle of the Blast Begins

Michael C. Moynihan | April 22, 2011

When Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley isn’t ruining peoples lives or blowing Senate races, she’s attacking social problems that don’t exist—like the latest teen trend of drinking huge cans of pomegranate flavored malt liquor. Sure, no one is actually drinking “Blast,” Colt .45’s new and obviously disgusting flavored beer, but Coakley and 18 other AGs suspect that children will go mad for giant, “brightly colored” cans of the watermelon brew.

Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley, along with 18 other Attorneys General, today called on Pabst Brewing Company to stop selling or alter its new malt drink beverage, Blast by Colt 45, because of its high alcohol content and marketing tactics. The drink, known as “binge-in-a-can,” offers the equivalent of five beers in one serving.  The Attorneys General also are concerned that the product is being marketed and packaged in a way that targets underage youth.

Earlier this month, Pabst introduced its Blast by Colt 45 as a flavored malt beverage in fruit flavors of grape, strawberry lemonade, strawberry watermelon, and blueberry pomegranate, with an alcohol concentration of 12% in brightly colored 23.5 ounce single serving cans.  This means that each single serving contains the equivalent of nearly five servings of alcohol.  Anyone who consumes a can of Blast within an hour will have engaged in binge drinking as defined by The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Ban it! And while you’re at it, Martha, why not ban flavored vodka? Or Godiva liqueur? After all, kids love chocolate. And kids also love Snoop Dog, who signed on as Blast’s spokesman.

The press release claims that the drink is “known as binge-in-a-can,” though the only reference I can find to this clunky sobriquet  is from …Martha Coakley who, as quoted in the very same press release, moans that “the promotion of this ‘binge-in-a-can’ is aimed at the youngest of drinkers as well as underage youth.”
Reason on the (successful) war against Fourloko.

Snoop Dogg Wants To Team Up With Lindsay Lohan

Rap superstar Snoop Dogg wants to team up with Lindsay Lohan - for a movie and an album of duets.

Snoop confesses he's a huge fan of the Mean Girls star and is reaching out to her with a view to becoming the oddest couple in Hollywood.

He tells Ok! magazine, "You never know. I like Lindsay. Why not do both a movie and an album?

Snoop Dogg to star in reality TV show

Snoop Dogg has signed up to appear in a reality TV show in the US.

The series, which will see the rapper balancing family duties with his hip-hop career, is to be screened by cable network E! Entertainment.

"The juggling act that Snoop faces day-in, day-out between career and family is certain to resonate with our viewers," said Ted Harbert, president of the Comcast Entertainment Group, which operates the channel.

As previously reported on NME.COM, the rapper has had several run ins with the law.

He missed a number of tour dates in London and Manchester with fellow rap star P. Diddy in March after he was refused a visa.

In April, Australian immigration officials also banned him because of a US court case where he pleaded no contest to gun and drug charges.

Following that case, he was given five years' probation and was ordered to carry out 800 hours community service, reports BBC News.

Snoop in more trouble with the law

Me arrested? Nah man never happened.
This picture?I got this at one of them
photo booth places!

Snoop Dogg had himself a bad Tuesday as he was chargedwith felony drug and gun charges in Los Angeles. The one time hard core rapper who has mellowed out in recent years still hasn’t learned how to stay out of the police blotter.

Snoop Dogg faces charges of gun possession by a felon and sale or transportation of marijuana.

He was arrested Oct. 26 by Burbank police at Bob Hope Airport on suspicion of transportation of a controlled substance. Burbank police later discovered a gun at his home.

If convicted, he faces up to four years in state prison.

What’s nice to know is that if you are rich enough you will be able to get out of all kinds of trouble no matter how much you messed up in the past. I once got a speeding ticket and my insurance went up like $30 a month for 5 years, but if I was Snoop I could have used the ticket as rolling paper and received free insurance for a decade. They should just save tax payers some money and issue celebs a license to get out of trouble and charge them a few grand a year for it… just cut out the middle man.

Snoop Dogg hit with gun and drug charges

Snoop Dogg was scheduled to be arraigned Wednesday in Pasadena on felony gun and drug charges, Los Angeles County prosecutors said.

The 35-year-old rap star faces charges of gun possession by a felon and sale or transportation of marijuana.

He was arrested Oct. 26 by Burbank police at Bob Hope Airport on suspicion of transportation of a controlled substance. Burbank police later discovered a gun at his home.

If convicted, he faces up to four years in state prison.

"These were changes we fully expected," said Snoop Dogg's attorney, Donald Etra. "They will be dealt with in court tomorrow. The matter will be resolved tomorrow."

The rapper was convicted in 1990 of cocaine possession and charged with gun possession after a 1993 traffic stop. He pleaded guilty in exchange for three years' probation and a promise to make public-service announcements against violence.

The rapper's manager, Constance Schwartz, said a written statement would be issued Wednesday.