Four Loko

Who has had experience with this beast?


Apparently enough people to warrant a website that specifically focuses on how wrecked and reckless someone got partying with this drink.

Four Loko Stories

Others warn against its consumption, due to the punch it packs. The private stories featured on the 1st site tend to support the warnings.

Four Loko Caused Death?! Even United States Banned This Alcohol Drink!! - The Coverage


We partied with it a lot during college, and I've seen people get black out drunk on it several times.
A good buddy of mine, a hypernerd who'd never harm a fly, once got into a fight at a house party on two cans of Loko. Chicks, who were generally fairly "good" girls, would turn into Vegas strippers one or two cans down the road.
I have yet to see anyone drink 3 cans and not black out eventually.

On one hand, I enjoy the drink because of the crazy fun times I've had with it personally. Luckily, I survived those, although a lot of stupid acts were committed.
On the other, I'd never want my kids to drink this. Two cans down, decision making skills are generally severely impaired, but energy is increased. A bad combination. Worse than on any other alcoholic beverage I've come across, and I'm in bars a good bit.

Anyone else had any experience with this? Good or bad.

 

Not at all.

I know my way around hard liquor, Moonshine, Everclear, Absinthe, etc and I've been long out of college.

Loko looks and tastes like a koolaid drink, but 3 cans will absolutely wreck most people.

It was known as "blackout in a can" for a reason.

 

The old formula had caffeine in it (on top of a bunch of other stuff). Plenty of sugar.

After one-too-many incidents of people getting devastatingly drunk on it, the manufacturers were ordered to take the caffeine out. Drink still continues to have a weirdly powerful intoxication effect.

 

I'll take it as you've never been near it. Cool.

 

Dude, I get it. You've never touched the beverage in question and cannot participate in a conversation about it other than blasting "kids who get drunk".
Perhaps you'd be more comfortable (relevant) in a thread where you have something to contribute in regards to the original post?

 

"Never touched it, don't know anything about it, will never touch it."

Thanks for your input.

 

Lol, either poor reading skills or willfully trolling.

No one is new to other beverages here, as was pointed out to you already. No one is still in college even.
You are fixated on pointing out how much you hate college kids' drinking habits. Most people do.

The post isn't about college at all but about one particular beverage that happens to stick out in its effects. On college kids or adults who drank it. You would know this if you had any experience with the subject at hand, but you don't, so you focus on hating college kids boozing.

Thanks for the passionate yet irrelevant input.

 

You're obsessed with the college part "bro". It has been pointed out to you that it does the trick just fine on adults as well, but you refuse to believe it because "12% is weak and zomg college kids!".

By your flawed logic, no one should ever get drunk on beer, because the average beer is around 5-7%.
I'm starting to doubt you've done any partying at all

 

No one blacks out at one.
Everyone I've seen, college age or in their 30's blacks out after 3.

They don't black out after wine. they don't black out after beer. They don't black out after hard liquor.
This drink however, for whatever chemical reason has been making people act up more than your average alcoholic beverage.

If you believe you need a high alcohol % to get destroyed, then you don't know basic drinking.
Three 22oz cans of 12% alcohol + all the other chemicals they jam in there is plenty. Makes sense that people report the devastation they do.

 

Don't see this kind of rah-rah over beer or hard liquor.

The drink came under major fire in 2010, as colleges and universities across the United States began to see injuries and blackouts related to the drink's misuse. The University of Rhode Island banned this product from their campus on November 5, 2010.[10] The state of Washington banned Four Loko after nine university students aged 17 to 19 from Central Washington University in Ellensburg, Washington became ill at a house party in Roslyn, Washington. The students were hospitalized with blood alcohol levels ranging from 0.12 to 0.35 percent (a level of 0.30 percent being considered potentially lethal) and one university student almost died, according to CWU President James L. Gaudino.[11]


In October 2010, following the hospitalization of seventeen students and six visitors, Ramapo College of New Jersey banned the possession and consumption of Four Loko on its campus.[12] As a result, Worcester State University stopped the sale of all energy drinks, and they as well as Boston College have informed their students of the risks involved in consuming Four beverages. By November 2010 dozens of other colleges and universities sent out notices informing their students to avoid the drink,[13][14] while several more have placed outright bans on their campuses.[10]