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Originally posted by NotFromHere
FRANKFORT, Ky. State officials in the land of Old Grand-Dad, Jim Beam and Wild Turkey are pushing to ban a device that vaporizes liquor and allows people to inhale the intoxicating fumes for a quick high without the burn of hard liquor.

Teresa Barton, head of the Kentucky Office of Drug Control Policy, said banning alcohol vaporizers is a matter of public safety, not preserving the state’s sipping whiskey industry. She said such devices could become “a real deadly trap” because they have “no purpose other than to get you drunk.” (uh, that's the point).

So far, 17 states have banned them, including California, New York, Florida, Illinois, Pennsylvania and Ohio, and several others are considering doing so, said Sherry Green, executive director of the National Alliance for Model State Drug Laws. Tennessee, the home of Jack Daniels, already prohibits the vaporizers.

“When you inhale alcohol right into the lung tissue, that gets drawn right into the blood supply immediately, so it’s a very rapid onset of the intoxicating effect, and so has obviously very high abuse potential,” said Robert Walker, an assistant professor at the University of Kentucky Center on Drug and Alcohol Research. (I'm sure that's why it was invented.)

Walker said alcohol vaporizers bypass altogether the tactile pleasures of drinking wine with a fine meal or a cold beer with a pizza: “You’re going strictly to the intoxicating effect of alcohol.”
(again, that's the point)

In addition, Green warned that the devices could provide a dangerous legal loophole for teenagers in states where current law forbids only “underage drinking,” not “underage inhaling.”

I can't remember the last time I drank not to get drunk. I don't think I've ever done that.



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I don't drink to get drunk. I remember the last time I did drink to get drunk (probably about a year and a half ago, before that on a semi-regular basis) and now I pretty much try to avoid getting drunk (though a light buzz is okay) and I drink primarily for social reasons.

Am I officially a grown up now?