23 February 2010, 10:00
ncbomanThe Chemist's War
Someone sent this to me. WoW !!!
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Frustrated that people continued to consume so much alcohol even after it was banned, federal officials had decided to try a different kind of enforcement. 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.
The Chemist's War; The little-told story of how the U.S. government poisoned alcohol during Prohibition with deadly consequences.
24 February 2010, 14:44
Don EdwardsThe practice never stopped.....
ANY Ethyl Alcohol produced or imported into the United States and offered for sale which has not been TAXED is required to be "denatured", which is nothing less than the addition of a government approved poison.