Germany's Oktoberfest has banned a plan for barmaids in low cut traditional dresses to sell fake cocaine at this year's festival.
Businessman Wolfgang Stanek says he invented 'Wiesn Cocaine' - or festival cocaine - specially for the Munich beer festival this month.
The sealed £5 sachets contain nothing stronger than sugar and menthol, which Mr Stanek claims give a natural high when punters snort it through a supplied straw.
He'd planned to sell the concoction to festival goers using busty models dressed in traditional dirndl dresses with tightly laced corsets.
"We are anti drugs. Our mixture just gives drunks a little shake to wake them up," he claimed.
But organisers want to ban the product, claiming it would distract from their beer and cause problems for stewards and police looking for real drug users.
"We don't want cocaine, nor do we want a sugar mixture which looks like cocaine. We just want guests to enjoy our beer nothing else," said a spokesman.
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