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You're going to need to ban a lot of other things, including fruit, because people will just make it at home. Except it'll be unregulated, then people will start dying even harder.
What you are saying does not make sense at all.
That's literally what happened throughout the US in the 1920s.
I can make alcohol in a bowl on my counter with sugar, yeast, water, potatoes, and a couple weeks waiting. I can do it much faster and more effectively with a little copper tubing and some heat.
Don’t even need the potatoes.
You can make hooch with just sugar, water, and yeast
Great, how much can you make?
The way that banning work is by limiting the availability.
If you are a addict you cannot go to the bar for drink.
Which means the banning work in your case.
banning alcohol only reduced LEGAL AVAILABILITY, people will still be able to make mass quantities of alcohol for sale, these products will almost certainly not be up to standards of local health and safety originations and will result in more harm than if purchased through a legal source.
Seriously pal, read up on what happened in the US when we tried prohibition. Read up on prison economics. Alcohol is severely restricted in prisons all over he world, and most prisoners have no problems getting alcohol. The only thing that happened when we tried it nationally was we created massive crime rings, and the more of those that shut down, the more popped up.
How much can I make? I can get 55 gallon drums on Amazon. So 55 gallons, at least. I can fit probably 15 of those in my basement. So that's 725 gallons at one time. Read up on bathtub gin. I've got two bathtubs. They're probably around 20 gallons each.
If I was an addict? You literally cannot limit alcohol from people who want it, because it's very easy to produce in very large quantities with very simple equipment. See also the wAr oN dRuGs and how well that limited access to pretty much every narcotic they attempted to control.
e: > If you are a addict you cannot go to the bar for drink.
Lol. Go look up what a speakeasy is. "Illegal" and "unavailable" are two entirely separate and unrelated concepts.
Well when they banned it in the united states you could still go to a bar it was just illegal, they just had to be secret bars, if anything banning it makes it more dangerous since then it's completely unregulated and you get bad moonshine and you go blind.
Yeah. You'll get there.
The only friend I ever had die of actual alcohol ingestion was distilling it himself and made wood alcohol that killed him.
Why we did not hear about stuff like this in saudi arabia?
There it is. Cultural bias both ways, friend.
Well, we lived in backwoods Kentucky, so I doubt it made the news over there.
This proves you are either a child or woefully ignorant. My guess is both.