Administrative/Regulatory
Jan. 7, 2017
New powdered alcohol ban could prove difficult to enforce
The same properties that lawmakers believe make powdered alcohol a health and safety concern will make AB 1554 difficult to enforce if ever a viable commercial product makes it onto the market. By Molly A. Jones
Molly A. Jones
Counsel
Crowell & Moring LLP
Phone: (415) 986-2800
Email: mojones@crowell.com
UC Hastings COL; San Francisco CA
Molly is counsel in the Intellectual Property and Litigation groups in the firm's San Francisco office.
"[P]owdered alcohol provides everyone, but especially children, a new way to drink an experiment with alcohol. The odorless, easily concealable white powder can turn any water bottle into vodka, or increase liquor's alcohol content to higher and dangerous levels. With the risks and harms traditional liquid alcohol already present to children, allowing another path to those disturbing outcomes is unacceptable." This was Assemblyme...
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