Where to get four loko

New York University students bought entire bodega stocks to resell to friends; cases were going for unheard of prices on eBay and Craigslist. It was Prohibition all over again. Eventually, the black market well dried up, and all that we're left with today, ten years later, is a sickly sweet, high ABV, caffeine-free drink in a camo tall boy can.

My brother, who was born in and currently goes to university in Ontario, Canada, where Four Loko was never legal in the first place, knows exactly what it is when I ask. Its reputation has outlived its actual effects by a decade.

Was the original Four Loko really that destructive, or was it the fact it was only available for a short, blackout blip in time, that cemented it into urban legend? The young adults of today may never know. United States. Type keyword s to search. Today's Top Stories. Every 'Bond' Film Ever, Ranked. Leaving Afghanistan Behind. Getty Images. Related Stories. Enjoy with plenty of ice. Single Malt Whisky.

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Four twenty-something Chinese girls in Nanjing, an eastern city near Shanghai, wanted to try the drink, local police reported link in Chinese, registration required. After three of them consumed six cans they sneaked into a karaoke bar, passed out, and were robbed, police said. The alcohol is malt liquor. At least five states in US banned Four Loko in its earlier formulation, including Washington, where nine university students were hospitalized in October after consuming Four Loko and vodka.

Parents of a year-old Florida man who had been drinking the alcoholic beverage for 30 hours say it caused their son to commit suicide in November of the same year. Phusion agreed to a ban of the manufacture and sale of caffeinated alcoholic drinks nationwide with 20 attorney generals and the city of San Francisco after the reformulation.