Powdered Alcohol "GENIUS"

AnMig

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These guys may make a lot of money but will probably loose it all specially if they target the youth. Denmark-nevermind.

Now powdered legal MJ and I am in.

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (Reuters) -- Dutch students have invented powdered alcohol which they say can be sold legally to minors.

The latest innovation in inebriation, called Booz2Go, is available in 20-gram packets that cost ?1-1.5 ($1.35-$2).

Top it up with water and you have a bubbly, lime-colored and -flavored drink with just 3 percent alcohol content.

"We are aiming for the youth market. They are really more into it because you can compare it with Bacardi-mixed drinks," 20-year-old Harm van Elderen told Reuters.

Van Elderen and four classmates at Helicon Vocational Institute, about an hour's drive from Amsterdam, came up with the idea as part of their final-year project.

"Because the alcohol is not in liquid form, we can sell it to people below 16," said project member Martyn van Nierop.

The legal age for drinking alcohol and smoking is 16 in the Netherlands.

The students said companies interested in making the product commercially could avoid taxes because the alcohol was in powder form. A number of companies are interested, they said.

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flexy

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*snort* ?????


Guess the kids will be happy....ugh....
 

AnMig

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It will be lot easier to sneak drinks in stadiums, planes, government jobs.
 

clamum

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Originally posted by: AnMig
It will be lot easier to sneak drinks in stadiums, planes, government jobs.
:laugh:

3% ABV hey... little too low for my tastes. I wonder how it tastes with two or three packets.
 

Juice Box

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Originally posted by: Captain Howdy
Originally posted by: KMFJD
Originally posted by: thirdeye
Wow that's ballsy market to push alcohol on.

How so?

Younger than 16?
You are kidding right?

Many countries (read: Germany) allow kids to start drinking at a way younger age than in the US. Kinda funny when you think about it, they have the drinking age before the driving age, and their # of drunk driving accidents is significantly lower than over here. It allows kids the time to get used to the affects of alcohol at an early age. Whether or not this is better in the long run, is up in the air.
 

KMFJD

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Originally posted by: Juice Box
Originally posted by: Captain Howdy
Originally posted by: KMFJD
Originally posted by: thirdeye
Wow that's ballsy market to push alcohol on.

How so?

Younger than 16?
You are kidding right?

Many countries (read: Germany) allow kids to start drinking at a way younger age than in the US. Kinda funny when you think about it, they have the drinking age before the driving age, and their # of drunk driving accidents is significantly lower than over here. It allows kids the time to get used to the affects of alcohol at an early age. Whether or not this is better in the long run, is up in the air.

I never had any problem getting beer in the Netherlands when i was 14 or 15, the lower drunk driving rates should also reflect the fact that most people would ride a bike to the pub, or walk.
 

moshquerade

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Originally posted by: KMFJD
Originally posted by: Juice Box
Originally posted by: Captain Howdy
Originally posted by: KMFJD
Originally posted by: thirdeye
Wow that's ballsy market to push alcohol on.

How so?

Younger than 16?
You are kidding right?

Many countries (read: Germany) allow kids to start drinking at a way younger age than in the US. Kinda funny when you think about it, they have the drinking age before the driving age, and their # of drunk driving accidents is significantly lower than over here. It allows kids the time to get used to the affects of alcohol at an early age. Whether or not this is better in the long run, is up in the air.

I never had any problem getting beer in the Netherlands when i was 14 or 15, the lower drunk driving rates should also reflect the fact that most people would ride a bike to the pub, or walk.
exactly.
 

zephyrprime

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I don't see how the lawmakers over there will allow this if they don't allow liquid alcohol to be sold now. All they have to do is pass a new law.
 

Vegitto

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Originally posted by: KMFJD
Originally posted by: Juice Box
Originally posted by: Captain Howdy
Originally posted by: KMFJD
Originally posted by: thirdeye
Wow that's ballsy market to push alcohol on.

How so?

Younger than 16?
You are kidding right?

Many countries (read: Germany) allow kids to start drinking at a way younger age than in the US. Kinda funny when you think about it, they have the drinking age before the driving age, and their # of drunk driving accidents is significantly lower than over here. It allows kids the time to get used to the affects of alcohol at an early age. Whether or not this is better in the long run, is up in the air.

I never had any problem getting beer in the Netherlands when i was 14 or 15, the lower drunk driving rates should also reflect the fact that most people would ride a bike to the pub, or walk.

Anyone who CAN drive, WILL drive. But over here, most people are responsible enough to not drink till they puke.

Originally posted by: zephyrprime
I don't see how the lawmakers over there will allow this if they don't allow liquid alcohol to be sold now. All they have to do is pass a new law.

I have yet to see a functional law passed over here.. It just won't happen, unless minorities start to complain about it.
 

crystal

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Ah, what happen if somebody eats those stuffs in powder form? Burn off your tongue? New kind of shot?