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Lance Behn said he only gets it once a week. Zack Daly gets it two or three times a week.

Seth Fricks, maybe four or five times.

But what they have in common is that they’ll be getting it a little longer when the rest of the country won’t be.

UF students and beverage lovers around the country are stocking up on any remaining Four Loko, the alcoholic energy drink that has raised controversy over its health effects.

In response to recent legal controversy, makers of Four Loko agreed to remove the energy-boosting ingredients from the drink — caffeine, taurine and guarana — making it merely another malt beverage on the market.

Since the Food and Drug Administration requested that all alcoholic energy drinks cease distribution last week, shipments of Four Loko have been halted, but sales have not stopped.

The country’s very last caffeinated Four Lokos have been flying off the shelves.

Daly, whose favorite flavor “hands down” is orange, began stocking up on the drink the minute the store clerk told him of Four Loko’s fate.

“I was like, ‘Oh, crap,’ and I ran back to the fridge and grabbed a bunch,” he said.

Read the full story at the Independent Florida Alligator.

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