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Energy drinks, so wonderful for cross country road trips, late night cramming, and temporary killing of the sleepies. Manufacturers of energy drinks are always trying to find ways to market their products to the young, hip and perpetually tired. In doing so, they have managed to come up with 2 very illegally named products, Cocaine and Blow. Of course, controversy ensued.

Cocaine was introduced in September of 2006. It contains 350% more caffeine than Red Bull and 750mgs of Taurine (Red Bull contains 1000mgs). By May of 2007 the FDA forced the drink's manufacturer, Redux Beverages, to pull the product from the shelves because they were "illegally marketing their drink as an alternative to street drugs". Redux then decided to redistribute the drink under the name "No Name", leaving a large blank space on the can, where Cocaine used to sit, allowing drinkers to write in their own name for the drink. Clever bastards! Now in 2008 the company has been allowed to distribute the product under it's original name, Cocaine.

Blow Energy Drink Mix is a white powder sold in vials clearly using drug culture as a marketing technique. This is a fairly new product and therefor controversies surrounding it are just starting to pop up. On January 31, 2008 the FDA sent a warning letter to Blow's marketing firm stating "Blow is marketed as an alternative to an illicit street drug and is intended to affect the structure or function of the body". It will be interesting to see how this plays out. Will it get pulled? Will they rename the product? Should they have to? So many questions!

EnergyFiend.com has some pretty nifty graphs comparing these energy drinks to others on the market. How does Cocaine compare to Blow? Geek out on graphs like I did.

This post was written under the influence of large amounts of energy drinks. Uncontrollable shaking and the poos were a direct side effect. *

*may or may not be true