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Jun 24Liked by Nancy Friedman

I do also like "with an unparalleled effect", which means ... well, something? Not to mention how a mind-altering drink — that's the point, right? — is somehow social.

As for trademarks, it's gotta be tough to carve out a new, what, genre in the crowded beverage market. And I imagine that it's just a reflex for global companies like Anheuser-Busch to file paperwork every time someone from the marketing department sneezes in a brainstorming session.

You'll remember the kerfuffle about a PNW company sending cease-and-desist letters to anyone who uses the term "seltzery" in what they claim is an impinge-y way. Good thing I'm not the judge on that one, because c'mon.

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OK, I looked up “seltzery” in the USPTO database, and that San Juan (WA) company does have a registered trademark for the word. Previous claimants, in California, North Carolina, and Tennessee, let their seltzery trademarks lapse. ("Seltzery" sounds to me like an adjective.)

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Jun 24Liked by Nancy Friedman

"Seltzery" sounds like a room in a Catholic church— "Father Timothy is with a congregant in the Seltzery right now. He'll be right out." That is, a noun.

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I remain curious about the idea of micro-dosing THC. I don't know how it might make you act in a social setting, but I do know from several years of personal research that cannibis does not make one witty or social. A little horny, maybe; certainly hungry, but not seltzery; and with a tendency to sit in the corner obsessing over record covers and comic books.

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Alan Ginsberg said, "Pot is Fun." But Frank Zappa said, "Dope makes you stupid."

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Jun 24Liked by Nancy Friedman

The sheer creativity while skirting any legal claim!

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Jun 24·edited Jun 24Liked by Nancy Friedman

FWIW, the Canns we tried in Cali were better than the same flavo(u)rs of Cann made in Illinois. (Because thc products can't cross state lines they must be manufactured in the state where they are sold. Also way too expensive compared with edibles.)

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Oh, interesting!

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