Q: Weird legality about owning glassware in Florida
Basically I'm a chem student and I'm super bored cause of coronavirus so I wanna buy some equipment from amazon and just make fun stuff like plastic. One of those pieces of glassware is a condensation column which is used in distillation. Of course of the many many things that can be distilled, alcohol is one of them and producing, and owning moonshine is a serious felony out here. Another serious felony is owning equipment that "can be used" to make spirits. BUT it can still be purchased and stuff, and is more frequently used for distilling water, essential oils, and generally removing products from solution. It is however legal on a federal level to own equipment, and distil things that aren't spirits. I very clearly don't wanna be arrested for owning a glass tube, and I was wondering if there's anyone on here who can tell me more about this poorly worded prohibition era law
A: To start, you might want to include the statutory reference. Then the thing to do might be to search for caselaw which has interpreted that particular statute.
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