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.
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