US appeals court declares 158-year-old home distilling ban unconstitutional

Post by bcjdjsndon » Tue, Apr 14, 2026, 10:16 AM UTC

Nifty3929 wrote: post #235

Great - but this will only until home distilling becomes popular in which case they will find a new reason to prohibit it. A company will produce a home-distilling gizmo with a fancy screen and app to go with it. They will raise some few $M's and have news articles written. Probably there will be a subscription consumable of some kind. Then there will be some bad press and they will make it illegal and the fancy home…

Post by ciupicri » Tue, Apr 14, 2026, 10:34 AM UTC

ryandamm wrote: post #4

Missed in the previous discussion: methanol is irrelevant. Grain based ferments have essentially zero methanol.(And methanol risk is a function of its concentration relative to ethanol — the treatment for methanol poisoning is… ethanol!) even fruit based fermentations with significantly higher pectin concentrations only produce trace methanol, and it’s not all that well concentrated in a distillation due to azeotrope…

Post by 15155 » Tue, Apr 14, 2026, 10:41 AM UTC

Tangurena2 wrote: post #117

bsimpson wrote: post #13

Do this one next: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gonzales_v._Raich The Supreme Court somehow held that the feds can regulate what you do in your own home (in this case, growing marijuana for personal use) because it could have a butterfly effect on the interstate price. (Constitutionally, the feds can only regulate _interstate_ commerce.)

Many American treaties (with other nations) prohibit both/either parties from decriminalizing marijuana among other drugs. Links: discusses some of the treaties: https://www2.nycbar.org/pdf/InternationalDrugControlTreaties... History of illegalization of pot: https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/R44782

Post by redsocksfan45 » Tue, Apr 14, 2026, 10:57 AM UTC

cucumber3732842 wrote: post #5

ryandamm wrote: post #4

Missed in the previous discussion: methanol is irrelevant. Grain based ferments have essentially zero methanol.(And methanol risk is a function of its concentration relative to ethanol — the treatment for methanol poisoning is… ethanol!) even fruit based fermentations with significantly higher pectin concentrations only produce trace methanol, and it’s not all that well concentrated in a distillation due to azeotrope…

Was it missed or intentionally downplayed/ignored because people came into the discussion with priors that they were eager to maintain? Seems like these sorts of "yes it could be unsafe in theory but the reality of physics and incentives make this mostly irrelevant" type things get missed far too often certain parts of the internet to be coincidence. That said, the fact that it dropped on a weekend did it no favors t…

Post by smcin » Tue, Apr 14, 2026, 12:01 PM UTC

mothballed wrote: post #189

rhcom2 wrote: post #173

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Republicans in Utah are also trying to remove the power from ballot initiatives because they're upset the Utahans passed an anti-gerrymandering initiative.

Yaeh this is a thing states do. South Dakota went in cahoots with the courts to cancel the ballot initiative to legalize weed, and California went in cahoots with the courts to sabotage prop 8 (the banning of gay marriage).