Ethyl Alcohol

ethyl alcohol, C2H5OH,

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also known as ethanol or just "alcohol", ethyl alcohol is one of the most addictive, poisonous and socially damaging drugs known. Despite this statistical downside, as with many drugs the use of alcohol can be a pleasurable experience even for the non-addicted. Additionally--again as with other drugs--alcohol can even serve as a tool: for instance as a vehicle to altered states of consciousness or vantage points from which to experience and interpret "reality". Throughout most of human history consumption and production of ethyl alcohol has been legal in most jurisdictions, and often government sponsored.

As an added benefit, a solution of EthylAlcohol and HydrogenHydroxide makes an excellent organic solvent and DisInfectant?.

Compare with <your favorite drug>.

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Not to be confused with methyl alcohol, which will kill you much quicker. See also FuselOil?.

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Edgar Bergen: Don't you know that alcohol for a young man is nothing more than slow poison?

Charlie McCarthy: Slow poison, eh? Well... I'm in no hurry.

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"My attorney has never been able to accept the notion--often espoused by former drug abusers and especially popular among those on probation--that you can get a lot higher without drugs than with them. And neither have I for that matter."

-- HunterStocktonThompson

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...these are a few of my favorite things!

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Unlike most drugs, can be, and is often, consumed without the intention of getting high. Instead, it is consumed with the intention of getting drunk.

Perhaps by you, not by me. And intoxication does depend on the quantity.

Not that there is any difference, by the way. Irrespective of your intentions, drinking EthylAlcohol will lead to intoxication.

Underage drinkers accounted for nearly 20 percent of U.S. alcohol consumption in 1999.

in a country where the legal drinking age is 21 rather than 18 or 16 as in most western countries

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