I’m not even sure that fermentation produces methanol. Normal fermentation produces ethanol (two carbon alcohol) rather than the one carbon methanol. The latter is what sends meths drinking tramps an industrial alcohol drinking other people blind.

Odd that the body is better able to cope with even number carbon alcohols than odd number ones.

Cannabis is an unauthorised substance in jail but is now being superceded by ‘Spice’, which although ‘legal’ to the public is still unauthorised in prisons & it’s causing major problems.

But… He who controls the Spice, controls the universe!

🙂

It may not be native but once upon a time landlords here were fined for not growing hemp. We made a lot of ropes and stuff from it.

fancy seeing you here

Distillation does not make Methanol.

Fermentation does. Fermentation isn’t illegal.

Entirely true, but if you distill then you concentrate it, mostly in the first bottle, the middle ones will be fine, and the last one will be full of heavy alcohols (wont kill you, but are why cheep vodca tastes of petrol, and gives rotten hangovers).

The problem is
a) most people wont have the facilities to test for methanol.
b) most people wont know they have to
c) the kind of person trying to save a few quid distilling their own vodca probably doesn’t appear on the same venn diagram as the kind of person who will do it responsibly.
d) it still explodes if not done safely
e) you mostly produce ~98% alcohol, which then needs diluting with water (which is why distilaries need a stream of nice soft water rather than in Burton on Trent with the breweries), so even the non-methanol containing bottles are deadly.