Tuesday, June 07, 2005

The License Plate Game

Talk Left discusses efforts to ban license plates containing the chemical formula for illegal substances:
This is pretty ridiculous. Someone in Washington State is driving around with the license plate "C9H13N" and the state is upset because it says it's the formula for methamphetamine.

The plate appears to be counter to state regulations that ban vanity plates making reference to alcohol or illegal substances.

Only it's also the formula for amphetamine and amphetamines lawfully are used in medicines. Hundreds of substances have the same chemcial formula.

It's an interesting read, and I now know the formula for truth serum. If only I'd taken more chemistry . . .

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