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I don't understand why the campaigns against alcohol have been so unsuccessful. Alcohol is very easy to manufacture in secret.

• CWuestefeld 12y ago
  And, by the way, can easily yield the poisonous methanol variation accidentally. This wasn't uncommon during prohibition, and many people were harmed, blinded, or killed, by drinking it. This is a very close parallel to what we see in the (failed) War on (some) Drugs, where many people are harmed by overdoses because the products wind up tainted, or aren't produced to any uniform potency.
  • tmoullet 12y ago
    I thought the people who were killed by methanol poisoning was a deliberate side effect of the ATF adding it into liquor/beer supply in order to make consumers second guess their decision to drink. EDIT: see denatured alcohol at any hardware store.
  • iak8god 12y ago
    This is only a concern with distilled spirits.
  • fyrabanks 12y ago
    Methanol poisoning was an deliberate act by the government during Prohibition. https://www.vox.com/2014/8/8/5975605/alcohol-prohibition-poison https://www.vox.com/2014/8/8/5975605/alcohol-prohibition-poi...