People Will Abuse Powdered Alcohol, Ohio Lawmakers Say
From the article:
We have powdered coffees, powdered juices, powdered soups, powdered eggs, powdered milk.
Why not powdered alcohol? After all, it’s light, portable and convenient.
But we’ll abuse it, two Ohio lawmakers say.
Reps. Ron Gerberry, D-Austintown, and Jim Buchy, R-Greenville, introduced House Bill 594 to prohibit the sale of powdered or crystalline alcohol in Ohio.
Alaska and South Carolina already have banned the substance, and New York, Vermont and Minnesota have pending legislation to do the same.
“The public health risk of powdered alcohol is too great for our state to ignore,” Buchy said in the same release. “We have to do our part in putting forth reasonable laws that protect our children and prevent the availability of drug forms that have a higher potential for abuse.”
Their concerns mirror those of U.S. Sen.Chuck Schumer, D-New York, who asked the Food and Drug Administration to ban it.
In April, the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau, which regulates taxing and labeling of alcohol products, approved seven flavors of Palcohol. It then temporarily rescinded those approvals because of a technical issue with the package fill levels. Palcohol made some changes and resubmitted the labels for approval.
According to Schumer, the FDA supersedes the TTB approval in the presence of significant health concerns.
Now all of sudden.. ALCOHOL… is a DRUG ? Here is a news flash to all these bureaucrats… ALCOHOL HAS ALWAYS BEEN A DRUG !
Then why isn’t there a call for the FDA to regulate/ban all alcohol products ?
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I’ll have you know I’m wearing my shocked face …..:)