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"From the time
kids are old enough to
turn on the television, public airwaves encourage teens watching television
to drink alcohol." - Gary Cifra
1906 "Denaturing"
process is required for manufacturers that want to avoid taxes levied on
potable spirits.
October 28, 1919 Congress
passed the Volstead Act.
mid-1920s Treasury
Department estimates 60 million gallons of industrial alcohol are being
stolen annually.
"The Prohibition Era in the United States is often
used as an example of how banning recreational substances not only increases
their popularity but also causes a boom in criminal activity. Indeed, it was
Prohibition that greatly increased the strength of the American Mafia, as the
top crime lords of the day grew rich through the clandestine trade and sale of
alcohol in addition to gambling and other activities." - Whitney Webb
Hidden in Plain Sight
1926
Calvin Coolidge turns to
chemistry as an enforcement tool.
Some 70 denaturing formulas exist.
denature: de·na·ture [dee-ney-cher] verb (used with
object), de·na·tured, de·na·tur·ing.
1. to deprive (something) of its natural character, properties, etc.
2. to render (any of various alcohols) unfit for drinking by adding an
unwholesome substance that does not alter usefulness for other purposes.
3. Biochemistry . to treat (a protein or the like) by chemical or
physical means so as to alter its original state.
4. to make
(fissionable material) unsuitable for use in an atomic weapon by mixing it with
unfissionable material.
Most simply add methyl alcohol into the mix.
Others used
bitter-tasting
compounds that were less lethal, designed to make the alcohol taste so
awful that it became undrinkable.
To sell the stolen industrial
alcohol, the liquor syndicates employed
alchemists to "renature"
the products, returning them to a drinkable state.
Stolen redistilled
alcohol becomes the primary source of liquor.
Treasury Department
officials demand 10%
methanol be added to all ethanol
manufactured.
Christmas Eve 1926
Streets aglitter with snow and
lights a man afraid of Santa Claus
stumbles into the emergency room at New York City's Bellevue Hospital. He is
flushed, gasping with fear: Santa Claus, he tells the
nurses, is chasing him with a baseball bat.
The toxin-induced hallucination -
a paroxysm of death - tallied
up more than 60 people made desperately ill from
methanol
poisoning - eight dead.
Within the next two days, another 23 people
died.
In New York City, 1,200 are sickened by
methanol; 400
die.
Doctors see
methanol toxicity regularly during
Prohibition.
The bootlegged whiskies and so-called gins often made
people sick.
The liquor produced in hidden stills frequently came
tainted with methanol.
This outbreak was bizarrely
different.
The deaths came courtesy of the
Treasury
Department.
"The government knows it is not stopping drinking by
putting poison in alcohol." - New York City medical examiner
Charles
Norris
1927 Deaths in New York City climb to 700.
By this
time denaturing formulas included notable poisons -
kerosene and brucine (a plant
alkaloid closely related to strychnine),
gasoline,
benzene,
cadmium, iodine, zinc,
mercury salts,
nicotine,
ether,
formaldehyde,
chloroform, camphor,
carbolic acid,
quinine, and acetone.
"Normally, no government would engage in such business. It is only in the
curious fanaticism of Prohibition that any
means, however barbarous, are considered justified." - Chicago Tribune
editorial 1927
"Must Uncle Sam guarantee safety first for souses?" -
Omaha Bee
1928 "Practically all the liquor that
is sold in New York today is toxic!" -
Charles Norris
Charles Norris assigns his toxicologist, Alexander Gettler, to
analyze confiscated whiskey for poisons
and publicized every death by alcohol poisoning.
Charles Norris points
out that most of those sickened and dying are those "who cannot afford
expensive protection and deal in low grade stuff."
Anti-Prohibition
legislation pushes for a halt in the use of lethal chemistry.
"Only one possessing the instincts of a wild
beast would desire to kill or make blind the man who takes a drink of liquor,
even if he purchased it from one violating the Prohibition statutes." -
Sen. James Reed of Missouri
1933 End of
Prohibition: Estimates of at least 10,000 people from "denaturing".
"Our
national experiment in extermination." -
Charles Norris, the chief
medical examiner of New York City during the 1920s
Denaturing program
ends only once the 18th Amendment is repealed in December 1933.
1970s DEA sprays cannabis fields in Mexico with
Paraquat, a herbicide, primarily intended to destroy
crops.
Government officials insist awareness of the toxin will deter
marijuana users.
A half century later they echo the
official mantra of the 1920s - if some citizens ended up poisoned, well,
they'd brought it upon themselves.
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