Central Washington University found that drinking a high-energy under control, rural students sick with a party off campus this month, then-Attorney General Robert McKenna to seek a ban on drinking.
Nine students have been after 8 Oktoberfest in Roslyn, where about 50 people had been drinking at the hospital. Some students had a blood alcohol level of 0.12 percent to 0.35 percent after four cans of drinks Loko said CWU President James L. Gaudino, said in a press conference Monday. Other students mixed drink with alcohol in addition, he said.
McKenna said his office would be a test, as the ban on caffeine malt liquor this year, died after an earlier proposal to the European Parliament.
"It 's time to stop selling alcoholic energy drinks," said McKenna. "They use children to fruity flavors mask the taste of alcohol, and the high levels of stimulants, people have no idea how to actually trade drunk."
McKenna said he wants to make a national effort to sell drinks to a minimum.
Four Loko made by Phusion Projects Inc., Chicago. It comes in several varieties, such as fruit punch, blue raspberry. A message left in the company did not respond immediately.
Of 23.5 grams of four Loko was sold for about $ 2.50 and has an alcohol content of 12 percent, which is comparable to drinking five beers fifty-five. The caffeine in the drink may also reveal the influence of alcohol, so a person to eat more than normal, officials said.
All students who were admitted newcomers were age 17 to 19, and were inexperienced drinkers, Gaudino said. A student about to die, he said.
Students were recovered and returned to the school. CWU police chief said Steve Reiser unit investigating the source of the alcohol remains.
Gaudino said Central Washington University is a ban on alcohol on campus and evaluation of educational programs in these drinks.
Four Loko recently reviewed elsewhere. Last month, 23 students drunk during the period of a couple of weeks in northern New Jersey Ramapo College after drinking four hospitals Loko, after which the university president to lead to a ban. Four students from other patients in New York, university officials said.
Washington Governor Chris Gregoire is a Monday with the words, with the support of a measure of malt beverages with caffeine, which died in the legislature last year banned. The bill, requested by the liquor, the state, did not come from the Senate.
Gregoire said the liquor, being a "solution".
McKenna said his office to the marketing of drinks such review, including minors, to determine whether it violated consumer protection laws.
The state covers two above the largest brewer in the country LLC Miller, Coors and Anheuser-Busch InBev SA have similar drinks, he said.
"We've never brought an action against them because they acted as good citizens and removed from the product," he said.