The makers of “Cocaine” energy drink have a website here that provides some “public service announcements” in video form near the bottom right of the main page.
Do you think they are a helpful or effective deterrent to illegal Cocaine use? Write us & less us know! Or use the comment section below.
Christchurch company director Geoffrey Kevin Percy has plans to import up to 280,000 cans of the controversially-named Cocaine drink, which contains more than three times the legal amount of caffeine.
He is aiming to market them to consumers aged 16 to 25.
The edgy drinks have been branded irresponsible and potentially addictive, and their naming after a class A drug attacked as a “cynical marketing ploy”.
Today Sunday News can reveal Percy appeared in the 2004 edition of The New Zealand Pedophile and Sex Offender Index.
Here’s one of the reasons why selling a so called “energy drink” like Redux Beverage Inc’s “Cocaine” is & should be of major concern to Parents around the world. Here’s some straight of figures on the number one crime concerns in the US.
Since the biggest concerns in 2005 were 1. Child Molestation, & 3. the sale of Cocaine. I find it pretty ironic that this guy who was convicted of Molesting teenage boys is so enthralled with selling Cocaine the “soft drink”.
Yep, apparently when you molest, cocaine is best! Which is why I’m not surprised that Geoffrey Kevin Percy was strongly attracted to Jamey Kirby’s Energy Drink Product “Cocaine”. I mean I know it’s “just a name” according to Redux Beverages of Las Vegas, but whereas New Zealand is second only to the US in Cocaine & cannabis use, where better to market an energy drink to young kids than those two countries? I mean if you can get them hooked on Caffeine, maybe you can start buying them energy drinks to meet their cravings & befriend some new victims? Or heck, maybe you can just forgo all that nonsense & introduce them to Cocaine “the other drug laced substance”..
Hard to trust a convicted child molester marketing something called “Cocaine”, but apparently Redux Beverages doesn’t have a problem with selling it to Mr. Percy as long as he has the $$$, & can break them into that NZ market that is already reeling from illicit drug use overall.
Does anyone else find this irresponsible? Or is it just me?
Right on the can, they state that it’s “The Legal Alternative” Over the name “Cocaine” that is emblazoned on the front of the can in a self admittedly white powdery looking font.
I mean what did these dim-wits think? Did they really think parents & anti-drug abuse advocates were going to let them undo years of “Say no to drugs” work that Police officers have spent doing D.A.R.E programs in local schools, without a fight? So much for market research.. Unless of course maybe the guy who did their market research was high at time? That may be a plausible explanation..
Now besides the obviously irresponsible nature of the packaging, it has also come out today that children’s health is being seriously threatened by drinks that have insane levels of caffeine in them. Yeah yeah, I know what the Redux dopes are grumbling & mumbling while they are reading this; “But nobody forces them to drink it.. No fair, it’s not our problem!” Well technically you’re right, but morally you’re totally wrong. If kids had a solid sense of limits, we wouldn’t ever need to discipline them, but we all know we need to. So no matter what or “how” you crack-er heads over at Redux think, it’s wrong to promote this drink knowing that the under-aged will buy it & abuse it in many cases.
Here’s an image of the product which I speak of.. Be sure to write them & let them know what you think of YOUR child being exposed to it at the local convenience store.
Also complain to any company that sells any product made by Redux, as long as they make asinine justifications for the “Cocaine” brand name on their website..
Nice huh? Bottoms up little Johnny… Maybe tomorrow on your 13th birthday we can score some hookers. Well, if you live that long…
*Update*
I got a sappy e-mail from an endorser of this product who is apparently a professional paint ball player.. For the purposes of this article, we will call him “Inkspot”. Among Inkspot’s defensive arguments for the Redux Inc. energy drink product “Cocaine”, was that convenience stores have all kinds of bad products in them for children to see or purchase, so why pick on Redux?
My answer:
Well name one that uses the name of a drug to promote it, that has destroyed the lives of as many people as cocaine has, & then get back to me.. Name one that they can buy without being 18, & that’s not kept behind the counter. If you find one, I’ll write about it also. Also, you may comment on this post. Please explain why the fact that there are other companies putting out products that promote drugs & alcohol uses with their products & various vices to young people, justifies “Cocaine” energy drink using the name of a drug that has killed or ruined the lives of millions to promote their product. Ever hear that old saying “two wrongs don’t make a right”?
Show me the idiocy of another company who is doing this, & I’ll be glad to denounce them too.
I leave you with this from a Sept 2006 ABC News story, & few more comments on that, & a video that show’s how narcissistic this founder of this company really is..
The Secret Formula?
Kirby confesses that a “throat-numbing” ingredient is added to the drink to emulate its namesake, but he won’t divulge the identity of that add-in, saying it’s confidential.
“We’re getting a phenomenal response,” says Kirby, crediting the can’s simple design and product promotion for the drink’s early success among consumers from high school kids to 30-year-olds.
The company isn’t hiding from mixing Cocaine with alcohol. On the drink’s Web site, www.DrinkCocaine.com, it posts a variety of alcohol and Cocaine combinations.
Kirby, who says the world is ready for a beverage named after an illegal drug, has been surprised by the lack of controversy over the name of the drink.
You spoke too soon Kirbster…
In one of Redux’s latest statements on their website, they say the following:
“Despite the fact that we find the FDA claims to be ridiculous,” Ivey continued, “we have worked hard to address their concerns. Last year, it was our slogan (we got rid of it) and this year it’s the fonts (we’ll change them). The most expedient way to deal with their issues is to change the aspects of our marketing that enable them to mischaracterize our intentions - except for the name, of course, which the First Amendment gives us the right to keep and which they will have to pry from our cold, dead hands.”
This may be the only thing Redux Inc. is right about. They definitely have a first amendment right to label the drink the way they have (Calling it Cocaine). They just have to understand that others & myself have the First Amendment right to try & convince others not to buy or drink it, & to call them the insensitive & ignorant morons we think they are for naming their drink this way in the first place. It’s that darn age old, double edged sword thing again Mr. Kirby.. My call to the public is to be an exerciser of your right to boycott socially irresponsible companies. It’s your money, & just remember, if you buy ANY of Redux Inc’s products, you’re helping to fund their promotion of this very questionable product.
Check out in this video how in typical delusional liberal fashion, Jamey Kirby claims that because other people have promoted drugs & promoted vices to children, that makes it ok that he does. What a tard..
*Update* 07/12/08
So Redux Beverages ring leader Jamey Kirby e-mails me this really funny hate mail today.. My wife & I read it & practically laughed our asses off. Mostly because he apparently thinks himself much more important than he really is. I don’t see him as anything more than Saturday morning comic relief, & a lune who needs treatment for Narcissistic personality disorder. You see, he doesn’t like me or anyone else having a to right to free speech about his product, & having an opinion about it. His Hitler like Narcissism only allows him to believe that he has a “free speech” right to “shock the world” with his distasteful “Cocaine” (piss water) brand of energy drinks, but he has complete disdain for anyone who expresses their free speech opinion about said piss water. This is common symptomatology associated with the mental disease known as “Extreme Liberalism”. Now with that said, Jamey & his cult of caffeine addicted lemmings are free to fill my mailbox with hate mail anytime they like. After all, the sheer & obviously long practiced stupidity of some of these people makes great comedy for my readers. Just don’t expect me to respond to your e-mails, because you’re just not THAT important to me.
