NEWS: Students Find Underage Drinking Loophole: Alcohol Powder!

CULTURE: Students Find Underage Drinking Loophole: Alcohol Powder!

How’d you like to blow a line of Bacardi? Maybe you’d rather shoot a syringe of Sambuca, parachute a packet of Pernod, or surf a suppository of Strega, perhaps? With the creation of powdered alcohol, you should have no problem getting fucked up whichever way you want, right?

Wrong. When Dutch student Harm Van Elderen and four friends developed their version of powdered alcohol they had no lofty goals of smoking spliffs of sloe gin (last one, I promise). Rather, in a decidedly less interesting twist, they created Booz2Go, which is a powdered alcoholic beverage that packs a whopping 3% alcohol punch and hides it with a kid-friendly lime flavoring. Just add water and you’ve got instant kamikaze Kool-Aid.

“Why should I care?” you ask. Well, Reuters reports that the students had an ulterior motive in designing the spirit-ual powder:

As Van Nierop implies, the drinking age in the Netherlands is 16, but due to a loophole Booz2Go can legally be sold to children of any age. Just think of all those years us poor American kids wasted eating Lik-M-Aid and drinking Tang and Country-Time Lemonade when we could have been pounding Booz2Go and barfing in a sandbox. Thanks to modern innovation Dutch children won’t have to share our sad, sober fate.

When I lived in Europe every one I knew and they were from all over the place, considered the Dutch weird. This proves it in my mind WTF is wrong withn those guys ... the YOUTH MARKET... wankers.

Combine this product with Lik-M-Aid, and I'd buy it.

AWESOME

but they speak four languages AND smoke marijuana!

Just as an FYI...shooting up alcohol does nothing. You have to metabolize the booze into sugar in order for it to do anything. And no...you really don't wanna know how I know this.

I live in Europe... the Dutch are crazy!

Yeah sounds pedophilish to me... I don't think we can class all dutch people into the category of these losers though.
The youth market? 16 seems young already. I hope they get locked up, or the Dutch government changes their laws asap.
Why would you want to get kids drunk anyway? They sound like the lowest form of scum on this earth, like drug dealers who target kids.... I hope they get what they deserve.

Note- why do the editors here have to make a joke out of Every subject? I don't find anything funny about this.

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~inhale~ Dood, yoo know what these Pixie Stix need?

What, bro?

Booze.

Yeah!

I wonder what powdered vodka tastes like.

which is a powdered alcoholic beverage that packs a whopping 3% alcohol punch and hides it with a kid-friendly lime flavoring.

it tastes like lime.

What a horrible idea.

Actually the ethyl alcohol is the active ingredient in booze, doesn't need to be metabolized into anything to be psychoactive (it acts directly on neurotransmitter receptors in the brain called GABA receptors), and even if it did, it gets metabolized first to acetaldehyde, then to acetic acid, never sugar. If you didn't get buzzed, there were other, darker forces at work. Maybe you should try it again.

you want what ? Approval ?

no one can LIVE at that speed.

what about the loophole of homebrewing? as far as I know, there's no age restriction on the sale of homebrewing supplies, though you do have to be really dedicated to it in order to make a beer that's drinkable.

AND . . anyone who DID mainline ETOH is fortunate to not have . . . well . . . died. A tiny amount administered intravenously into the bloodstream elevates the Blood Alcohol Level considerably more than through oral ingestion. People who do this may experience a second or two of intense inebriation as they die. Hey, at least there's no hangover.

But this whole powdered alcohol for kids is just really sad.

Kids should have at LEAST 10% alcohol!

Oh, and you left out "Freebasing Frangelico."

The Dutch ish veird?

Yeah, uh...snorting shit is kinda gross.

And I'm pretty sure that loophole will be closed with the quickness.

+1 for Eddie Izzard

Go to your local highschool and offer a freshman this powder so her and all her friends can get drink with you.

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4chan in-jokes on lost of those who Fail.

god, that's sad.

I'm from England but i've lived in florida for as long as i can remember, and i went home a few summers ago and watched my 13 year old cousin go into a pub and order a drink.

And it was the coolest thing ever.

I really don't see a problem with this. But then again, the society i live in LOVES underage drinking. Its not just socially acceptable, its expected. So, in conclusion, i would have loved to have some legal alcohol, regardless of form, when i was younger. These dutch kids are lucky.