The U.S. government intentionally adulterated alcohol during Prohibition

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Now, this was slightly different from our modern policy of enforced adulteration of all non-beverage alcohol (methanol, which is what the article in question is referring to, is denatured even today to discourage consumption of it). Nevertheless, this does seem to justify modern paranoia with regards to our other great modern morality crusade, the "War on Drugs".

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I think this can be summed up as 'WTF Coolidge?'

I don't know that Coolidge had much to do with this.

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blah blah blah government is bad blah blah blah

Why yes, I believe that any State which means to poison its citizens is, by definition, "bad".

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Now, this was slightly different from our modern policy of enforced adulteration of all non-beverage alcohol (methanol, which is what the article in question is referring to, is denatured even today to discourage consumption of it). Nevertheless, this does seem to justify modern paranoia with regards to our other great modern morality crusade, the "War on Drugs".

Methyl alcohol isn't industrial alcohol and isn't denatured - it's used for denaturing alcohol, being far more poisons than any of the compounds of the list.  Most of those who were poisoned died from methanol (blindness is the telling symptom).

I'm not saying it's adulterated to make it more poisonous. I'm saying it's adulterated to make it less palatable to alcoholics who might otherwise be inclined to drink it.

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