“There
are very serious concerns about the illegal use of powdered alcohol by young
people, possibly even bringing it into schools or other events and locations
that prohibit alcohol consumption”
New York State Senator
Joseph Griffo, in a statement in 2014 on the dangers of children abusing
Palcohol
Well,
that didn’t take long!
Palcohol, the powdered version of alcohol was
approved for sale in the US of A on Tuesday March 17th 2015, by the
TTB (U.S. Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau) approved Palcohol as reported in the article “Powdered
Alcohol Is Now Legal — But Is It Safe?”, published March 16, 2015 07:04am
ET by Rachael Rettner, Livescience.
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This
was such interesting News that it made an appearance in the Jamaica Observer in the article “US
approves powdered alcohol”, published Wednesday, March 11, 2015 10:11 AM , The Jamaica Observer.
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specifically, four (4) flavours of this product have been approved for sale in
the US of A as noted in the article “Powdered
alcohol gets federal agency’s approval”, published March 11 2015 By
Associated Press, The Washington Post.
Those
four (4) flavours are:
1.
Cosmopolitan
2.
Powderita (a margarita flavor)
3.
Rum
4.
Vodka
Palcohol, a product that's the brainchild
of businessman Mark Phillips, is
powdered dehydrated Alcohol that you mix with 177 ml (6 oz) of water to produce
a standard drink that was launched in April 2014 as explained in my blog article
entitled “Businessman
Mark Phillip's Palcohol gets TTD Approval – Drinkers will judge Powdered
Alcohol from Low Temperature Nitrogen Atmosphere Vacuum Evaporation”.
Already,
without it being launched, it's attracting all kinds of negative flack, especially
as it already was seen a controversial that couldn’t possibly exist last year and
STILL got past the TTB as surmised in the article “Powdered
Alcohol 'Palcohol' Sounds Like An Accident Waiting To Happen”, published
3/13/2015 by Alice G. Walton, Forbes.
Palcohol officially
approved by TTB - Why Children will Abuse as US States and Countries ban this
product
Yes,
the bans have already started in Colorado, New York, Rhode Island, South
Carolina, Louisiana and Vermont as stated in the article “Powdered
Alcohol Wins U.S. Approval”, published March 11, 2015 7:30 p.m. ET By TRIPP
MICKLE, Wall Street Journal.
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states are soon to follow. Jamaica may not have announced a ban, but no doubt its
importation may already be blocked, despite the TTB stamp of approval. Despite
its cumbersome packaging, it still is fairly easy for a skilled Jamaican to
sneak a couple sachets into the island via Kingston Wharves.
Red
Stripe, meanwhile, since last year May 2014, has stages a successful Inaugural
Red Stripe Beer Festival to introduce people to their Beer Brands as well as to
possibly stave off defectors to Palcohol
as theorized in my blog article
entitled “Red
Stripe Beer Festival in the Middle of May 2014 a success – Beer Festival an
Annual Event to stave off Sweet Palcohol”.
After
all, if it’s in Powered form, it can easily be abused by children. It will definitely
create a lot of underage drinkers, especially those trying alcohol for the
first time, making it sort of like a gateway drug.
Children
may also mix it with other drugs or drinks to increase the sensation as well as
the flavour. They may also resort to snorting it like cocaine, albeit the maker
says that's not possible. The worst case scenario is butt-chugging, basically
ingestion via the anus as explained in this video.
This
all goes again the very idea that Mark Phillips had intended; a portable form
of alcohol that only required that you add water as noted in “Powdered
Alcohol Is Now Legal In The USA”, published March 17, 2015 by Janet Fang, I Fucking Love Science.
Still,
these concerns were not enough to stop it getting the TTB's approval. They'll
just have to wait for the Summer of 2015 to see what impact, if any, it has on
underaged children’s consumption of alcohol.
If this pops up in Jamaican, both Res Stripe and Parents will have one
more competitor for their target audience to worry about.
Here’s
the link:
Palcohol Twitter Feed: @Palcoholic
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