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Comment by Spooky23

5 hours ago

One leads to the other. Once you have distillation everywhere, bootlegging follows.

This was literally the basis of one of the first conflicts of the early federal government.

I'm not talking about homebrew bootlegging here. It's large-scale frauds where industrial ethanol (which often contains poisonous amounts of methanol, or _is_ methanol) is mixed with flavorants and colorants to cheaply imitate various hard drinks.