AND they make so much money just counting pills and trying not to see
any one at the "drop off" window. amazing, ugh? haha.

DAve



Franco wrote:
> A few years ago I was visiting my home country (Argentina) and a friend
> gave me some home-made orange liquor to taste. It was pretty good. So I
> asked him for the recipe, and it was really simple: ethanol, orange
> peel, and sugar. By the way, in Argentina if you go to the pharmacy and
> you buy alcohol (for scratches, etc) you are getting pure ethanol with
> nothing added to it, and it's cheap just like isopropyl is cheap here.
> So I come back to the USA with the recipe, and I start looking for
> ethanol, and I can't find it anywhere. Of course the first place I
> tried was the pharmacy, but you know how it is: you walk up to the
> "pharmacist" and ask him/her a question (such as "where can I buy pure,
> un-poisoned ethanol?") and you get the "deer in the headlights" stare.
> Anyway, after some research I eventually realized that Uncle Sam
> doesn't want you to be making your own spirits because Uncle Sam wants
> to collect alcohol taxes.
>
> Bottom line: rig a distiller at home and get caught -> go to jail.
>
> P.S. it's sad to see that what used to be a profesion (pharmacy) has
> been dumbed down to filling prescriptions (counting pills and little
> else).
>