Along with all of these problems comes the problem of quality control. This is not just any product we are dealing with, drugs and alcohol are subtances that you consume. This quote from a book about the alcohol prohibition helps explain why this is an issue. "The easiest way to get around the Volstead Act was to be in the Industrial Alcohol Business. Alcohol was needed to manufacture a huge number of products from paint to toothpaste… When it came out of the factory industrial alcohol was poisonous. But it could be "washed," that is, the poisson's could be removed. Sometimes they were, sometimes they were not, and many people died or went blind from drinking liquor made from industrial alcohol." (Daniel Cohen 38) This shows that since people
