“Imagine a Margarita on a counter. And then imagine if you could snap your fingers and it would turn into powder. That’s Palcohol….without the magic.” So says Mark Phillips, the creator of Palcohol. Phillips created Palcohol, a witty play on “Powdered Alcohol,” so that he could have a drink while “hiking, biking, camping and kayaking” without carrying a heavy bottle around. According to the…
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New York City Bans Powdered Alcohol Not even properly launched in the market, powdered alcohol is already banned in twenty states. The most recent state to join in is the state of New York, banning powdered alcohol last Friday, August 14. “This dangerous product is a public health disaster waiting to happen. I am proud to sign th... http://www.healthaim.com/new-york-city-bans-powdered-alcohol/26581
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Not even properly launched in the market, powdered alcohol is already banned in twenty states. The most recent state to join in is the state of New York, banning powdered alcohol last Friday, August 14. “This dangerous product is a public health disaster waiting to happen. I am proud to sign th...
You just finished a long hike and you’re ready to settle down by the campfire for the night.
You want to enjoy the atmosphere with a nice margarita so you pull a pouch of powder out of your backpack, mix it with water and, after a bit of stirring, your cocktail is ready to drink.
Sounds like the future, right?
Well not in Illinois, where the sale of all forms of powdered alcohol produced for human consumption have been banned.
Powdered alcohol isn’t for sale in the United States yet, but one company has received approval to make their product, called Palcohol, from the federal Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau.
So you might not be familiar with powdered alcohol. But Illinois politicians sure are and they seem to be convinced it will destroy the very moral fabric of society.
They’re so certain, in fact, that not a single politician in the General Assembly voted against the ban and Gov. Bruce Rauner signed the legislation.
Ask critics of powdered alcohol why they dislike the product and their answer is simple.
“(Health officials) fear that people will add the powder to their cocktails to increase the alcohol content, raising the alcohol level to a dangerous degree,” wrote Hiyaguha Cohen in a panicky entry on the Baseline of Health Foundation blog. “They also worry about the potential for spiking drinks on the sly.”
Cohen also is concerned some people, especially teens, might consider snorting the product or injecting it into their veins.
The Illinois politician who sponsored the legislation made a similar argument.
State Sen. Ira Silverstein, D-Chicago, told the Associated Press he was worried it could be used to drug someone or be sprinkled surreptitiously on someone’s food.
But anyone who is familiar with the product would know that all of these claims are overblown.
Palcohol, the only powdered alcohol product approved for distribution in the United States, contains a total of 29 grams of powder. The alcohol content is roughly equivalent to one standard shot of liquor, like vodka or rum. When it’s mixed with the proper amount of water you end up with a six-ounce drink that is 10 percent alcohol.
To snort 29 grams of the substance would take about 60 minutes and would give the user the equivalent buzz of one shot of vodka, according to Palcohol creator Mark Phillips. It seems highly unlikely that someone would go through that much trouble for such a little effect.
To get a visual representation of just how much powder 29 grams actually is check out this video from Wired Magazine: http://bit.ly/1MiZ0Q8
Similarly, to inject the product you would need to reconstitute it to liquid form by mixing it with water. Why would you waste the time doing that when you have alcohol already in liquid form that is readily available?
The same thing goes for spiking a drink.
Twenty nine grams is a significantly larger volume than a shot of alcohol. So you have to carry more powdered alcohol than the liquid form to spike a drink. It also can take up to five minutes of stirring to dissolve and alters the color of the original liquid.
So using powdered alcohol to spike a drink is, again, completely impractical when liquid alcohol is more widely available and incorporates in the original drink almost instantly and isn’t visibly detectable.
So where does all of the confusion come from?
It seems to stem from a misunderstanding of what powdered alcohol is and how it is made.
People, like those who believe it could be sprinkled on food to get someone drunk, don’t understand the process. They seem to assume that making powdered alcohol creates a more concentrated version. But, in fact, powdered alcohol is a diluted form of alcohol.
To create it, a high proof liquor is mixed with a highly absorbent powder like cyclodextrin or maltodextrin extracted from starches in tapioca.
An article in Popular Science explains the process more thoroughly here:http://bit.ly/1mt2wcI
When you mix the alcohol with the powder you end up with a product that has a lower alcohol percentage than the liquor that was originally used.
Again, it would take 29 grams to incorporate the same amount of alcohol as a single shot of liquor. That’s a lot more than a sprinkle and would be noticed both visibly and in the taste of the food.
So it remains true that powdered alcohol is actually less dangerous than the liquid form in almost every regard. Liquid spirits are more concentrated, easier to conceal, more conducive to abuse and more easily used to up the alcohol content in a drink.
But hikers and campers are going to be strapped with carrying around heavy glass bottles instead of packets of powdered alcohol for the indefinite future in Illinois.
Let’s hope the legislature does some research next time before banning a product they don’t understand.
Or maybe they should get out of the business of regulating what adults can put in their bodies in the first place.
From my online research (and yes, mom, my research on this is limited to online), the typical line for a snortable drug is about 1/10th of a gram. Again, powdered alcohol will come in 29g packets. That means it would take 290 standard-sized lines to equal one single drink of alcohol. That’s insane— nobody is going to do that. Even if you did gigantic one-gram lines, you’d have to do 29 of them, and you would not be able to. Why? Because with just a little liquid it turns into glue. Inside your sinuses. Your nose would simply close up before you could even get one drink’s worth in.
We Experimented With Powdered Alcohol So You Don't Have To | WIRED
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