RE: mastodon.online/@karppinen/116…
isn't the ban for mostly sanitary reasons?
the person who would die poisoned by their own bathtube gin would most likely vote for #MAGA and sundry fascist #GOP #Republicans anyways (because fridumb and somesuch) so let their eugenics fever dreams become true 🤷🏽♀️
Sure it's bad that every other child is dying of measles, but on the positive side bathtub gin is now legal nypost.com/2026/04/11/us-news/…US appeals court declares 158-year-old home distilling ban unconstitutional
The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans on Friday declared unconstitutional a nearly 158-year-old federal ban on home distilling.Reuters (New York Post)
jwz
in reply to your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦 • • •No it's because "denatured" alcohol is alcohol that has been *intentionally poisoned*.
"They ordered the poisoning of industrial alcohols manufactured in the United States, products regularly stolen by bootleggers and resold as drinkable spirits. The idea was to scare people into giving up illicit drinking. Instead, by the time Prohibition ended in 1933, the federal poisoning program, by some estimates, had killed at least 10,000 people."
slate.com/technology/2010/02/t…
The little-told story of how the U.S. government poisoned alcohol during Prohibition.
Deborah Blum (Slate)jwz
in reply to jwz • • •DNA Lounge: 24-Feb-2010 (Wed): Wherein the ABC decides that infusions and bitters are illegal.
www.dnalounge.comMx. Chara Aznable (they/them) of Pnictogen
in reply to jwz • • •Lemniscate
in reply to jwz • • •Deep Mud
in reply to jwz • • •@jwz I used to see, back in the 1970s, men walking with the jerky walk that comes from drinking those poisoned alcohols.
Shameful episode. Just shameful
Fuck all the goddamned extremists of every single stripe. Especially, the religious extremists! May they all fall into a volcano