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February 12, 2007
People on 'ludes should not make the laws.
Via Chris, here's a list of items that are considered controlled chemical laboratory apparatus in the state of Texas. If you have any of the following, and are not connected with a school (teachers are exempt), you could fall under suspicion of making nasty illegal things in your home:
A) a condenser;
(B) a distilling apparatus;
(C) a vacuum drier;
(D) a three-neck or distilling flask;
(E) a tableting machine;
(F) an encapsulating machine;
(G) a filter, Buchner, or separatory funnel;
(H) an Erlenmeyer, two-neck, or single-neck flask;
(I) a round-bottom, Florence, thermometer, or filtering flask;
(J) a Soxhlet extractor;
(K) a transformer;
(L) a flask heater;
(M) a heating mantel;
(N) an adaptor tube.
Let's play another round of "spending public money on totally unenforceable laws!" Whee! Makes lab science tough, eh? In Texas, homeschools are technically considered private schools. Homeschools need no documentation or registration whatsoever. Technically homeschoolers are connected with private schools and exempt. But legally, we can't/don't have to prove it.
Teachers are exempt? How many science teachers take their lab apparatus home with them? Is this common?
But if they come for my coffee pot, I'm taking up arms.
Posted by lynx at February 12, 2007 7:58 AM
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You should have heard Ernie when he came home after being asked for his ID in order to buy cold medicine for the boys. *cringe* The way he was still raving after the drive home, I almost felt sorry for the poor little dimwit that informed him, "I'm sorry, sir, but the computer says I have to."
On the positive side, I can now set him off anytime I want to by saying, "The computer says I have to." :) It doesn't help the cause of freedom, but it does make me laugh.
Posted by: KathyJo at February 12, 2007 2:51 PM
So some of my homebrewing equipment makes me suspect of making drugs. I mean other than alcohol. Um.
Posted by: Jeff at February 12, 2007 5:09 PM
Whoa!
I am glad I live in New Mexico!
But seriously, talk about unenforcible.
What are they going to do, install survelliance cameras in your home.
The law is unnecessary. If they catch someone making crystal meth, they can charge them under the drug laws. If they come for someone using a cracked erhlenmeyer flask as a planting pot for their begonias, they are going to look mightly foolish!
Posted by: Elisheva Levin at February 12, 2007 9:19 PM
shudder
I just had a horrible flashback to organic chemistry. The worst thing we ever did was to isolate caffeine out of tea leaves, but often considered turning the place into a meth lab. Who would ever suspect?
Posted by: angie at February 14, 2007 9:39 PM