During prohibition, the US Govt added poison to industrial alcohol to discourage consumption. The government added more so people stopped using it and ended up killing 10,000 people.

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[–]SoCo 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

The local police did the same with weed vapes about the time we had 'popcorn lung' and other poisonings near Chicago...a couple years before legalization in Illinois.

Farmers have been adding herbicides/pesticides to the Anhydrous Ammonia forever, to get the meth heads who steal it. Now every drug is laced with fentanyl and you have to wonder if drug dealers are doing it or cops....with the state drug task forces being self funding, the drug dealers and the police drug task forces are one in the same. They need drug busts to fund the drug task force.

Here in Illinois, that is how the meth epidemic started; The Illinois Drug Task Force would bust one meth cook, threaten to permanently take their kids, forfeit their house and cars, and imprison them for 30 years.....unless they taught 5 other people to cook meth and helped them bust them...the Illinois Drug Task Force would even split the dope with them....because the Illinois Drug Task Force were all meth-heads, on loan from the state police, who didn't want to go back to the standard beat work. This way, they turned one bust in to 5, got free dope, forfeited 4 times as much money to fund their drug running task force endeavors.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Do you have any sources for more info on this?

[–]SoCo 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Not sure your specific interest...

I forgot the detail about the weed poisonings. It wasn't weed vapes, it was the K2 and other synthetic cannabinoids.

https://chicago.suntimes.com/2018/7/20/18516192/synthetic-pot-tainted-with-rat-poison-sickens-hundreds-fda-issues-warning

Someone obviously purposely poisoned them with rat poison, which could NEVER EVER be an accident from a "bad batch," as has been suggested. This suggestion is meant to confuse people loosely familiar with bad batches of LSD in the 1960's, which could be tainted with Strychnine, due to real old-school LSD being made from ergot, which contains Strychnine. The one or two people making all of the LSD in the US were busted eventually. Now days, it is all made from safer sources and technically more of LSA than actual LSD.

So the police busted a couple of Indian/Pakistani/etc. stores that were selling the synthetic cannabinoids and offloaded blame on them. This helped the public not ask more questions about who was purposely poisoning the public.

https://www.chicagotribune.com/marijuana/sns-synthetic-marijuana-rat-poison-sentence-20200124-cbxtghauozbdblorrf3sqf4dfi-story.html

Chemical companies started putting adulterants into Anhydrous Ammonia pretty early on after the Illinois Drug Task Force created the Illinois Meth Epidemic. They have tried lots of stuff, starting with poisons that seemed like normal farming stuff, to specific focused adulterants. The stuff is expensive for farmers and one of the most dangerous tools/products on the farm. They aren't likely to resist any chemical company or law enforcement lobbied addition to poison the tanks, hoping to deter their reckless theft.

https://www.farmprogress.com/farm-business/compound-added-to-anhydrous-ammonia-thwarts-meth-makers

The Illinois Drug Task Force accusation I have only my own personal observations and interviews with people who were manipulated by them. Their pattern of work is retrospectively very apparent and documented in court. Despite never being questioned and the court bending over backwards for them, The Illinois Drug Task Force ran most of the drugs in the sate for decades, mostly out in the open.

[–]twolanterns 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

most of it was sold by bootleggers who passed it off as not detrimental when they knew it was

[–]chadwickofwv 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I think that is an extremely low estimate.

[–]jet199 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I'm pretty sure that nowadays the perfume industry changes the alcohol in their products so it can't get you drunk on it.

But that's doesn't stop the winos from going into shops and downing all the bottles.

[–]Musky 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Perfume sounds gross to drink, the discerning wino prefers mouthwash.

[–]jet199 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

The reason hospitals in the UK started locking their wards was not because of sexual predators but because tramps kept coming in and drinking the hand sanitiser.

[–]jacques1102 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

And yet no evidence of bodies

[–]Yggdratruth 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Rampant capitalism at its finest.

[–]TaseAFeminist4Jesus 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Denatured alcohol is still something that's sold. It's adulterated so that taxes on drinking alcohol are not incurred.

[–]Canbot 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

We need a public audit of all the funding and expenditures of the government.

[–]Evola 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

There's methanol put in it, drinking that makes you literally blind.