Powdered alcohol could hit the market this year

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http://wreg.com/2015/03/02/powdered-alcohol-could-hit-the-market-this-year/

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Powered alcohol, a controversial product, may be hitting stores soon. Three states are so worried about it they’ve already banned the product, and there’s talk Tennessee may as well.

“Palcohol is a revolutionary product that has so many positive uses,” Mark Phillips, the creator of Palcohol, says in a Youtube video.

It’s exactly how it sounds: alcohol in a powered form that you add liquid to.

Palcohol is not on the market yet but according to the website could be by spring of this year.

However before it’s even hit shelves, there’s already doubt circulating.

Those who are against the Palcohol say would it be easier for Palcohol to get into the wrong hands, particularly minors. There are also questions about how it would be regulated.

Phillips addressed these concerns in the Youtube video.

“People imagined how it would be used, it was reported that Palcohol will make it easier to get drunk, by snorting it, easier to spike someone’s drink and easier for kids to get a hold of it, all of those statements couldn’t be

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Um - no. Ethanol is a liquid. You can no more powder it than you can water.

[truth_seeker]

Alcohol in powder form, in clear bottles, in small bottles, in plastic bags--will still be just the same; namely a substance which most people can take or leave, can use responsibly.

For a fraction of people, it will be able to set off a powerful process of addiction, craving, obsession, self-destruction and near insanity.

If you be in the first group, enjoy the pleasures.

If you be in the latter group, stop drinking and get back the life alcohol took from you.

Preventing people from getting powdered alcohol will have no material impact on the issue, whatsoever, anymore than Prohibition stopped people from drinking the then-illegal stuff.