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Re:Cocaine Paraphernalia Ads in the 70s by enriquto on Tuesday November 23, 2021 @07:58AM (#29317235)
> need to be really careful because 2 mL is a recipe for a fun night, whereas 7 mL will get you in ICU.

But it's the same thing with regular alcohol, isn't it? Half a bottle of liquor is a fun night, whereas three bottles surely will kill you. As long as it is diluted in practical quantities it doesn't seem like a big deal.

That said, they'll pry my saturday evening glass of scotch from my cold, dead hands.

Re:Cocaine Paraphernalia Ads in the 70s by GDC7 on Tuesday November 23, 2021 @08:24AM (#29317475)
The problem is that it's really really hard to gulp down 3 bottles of liquor.

Plus unlike G you are not involved in the preparation, a better comparison would be having a substance called super-duper-liquor that you'd have to dilute yourself with water in order to make sure that it's indeed 3 bottles of liquor needed to send you in ICU.

If you screw up the dilution of the super-duper-liquor you can end up in ICU after just a sip, and you'd not notice because it doesn't have a taste or a smell.

Plus let's face it, humans were never made to deal with liquid quantities in mL , we were made to deal in liters or even deca-liters, because that's the measuring unit of the most important liquid for humans: H2O

Few mL of water aren't good for anything.

Re:Cocaine Paraphernalia Ads in the 70s by erikbye on Tuesday November 23, 2021 @08:50AM (#29317746)
> super-duper-liquor that you'd have to dilute yourself

We have that in Norway, hjemmebrent, we just call it 9 6 (96%), aka moonshine.

Re:Cocaine Paraphernalia Ads in the 70s by codetrotter on Tuesday November 23, 2021 @09:21AM (#29318111)
Also illegal and not sold in stores.
Re:Cocaine Paraphernalia Ads in the 70s by kaslai on Tuesday November 23, 2021 @09:50AM (#29318413)
In the US, 95% ABV Everclear is readily available in most states. 75.5% ABV Everclear is available in even more. It's the easiest way to get near azeotropic food safe ethanol for making extracts.