Low-cal, low-carb way to enjoy liquor, with no hangover.

[JayC9]

i don't see the point as i actually enjoy the whole process of drinking a pint or a glass of wine but if the government doesn't like it then that's a good sign

 

[deltreefitness]

After years of working in the "leisure oxygen field" marketing oxygen for salons and spas in the U.K., businessman Dominic Simler came up with a novel idea: Why not create a device that would allow users to inhale vaporized alcohol along with oxygen? The machine Simler invented, called Alcohol Without Liquid, or AWOL, which takes hard liquor and disperses it as vapor in an oxygen mist, has been available at a small number of bars in the U.K. for several months; recently, a Greensboro, N.C.-based company called Spirit Partners purchased an exclusive license to sell the machines in the United States.

Normally, when you drink a glass of wine, say, or a shot of vodka, alcohol is absorbed over time, through the lining of your stomach and small intestine (roughly 10 percent to 15 percent in the stomach, 85 percent to 90 percent in the small intestine). The presence of food, especially starchy food, can slow this process further. When a shot of vodka or whiskey is poured into an AWOL machine and inhaled, however, alcohol enters the lungs and diffuses directly into the bloodstream, causing a much more rapid and potentially more intense buzz.

Links:

http://slate.msn.com/id/2106393/
http://www.reason.com/sullum/052005.shtml

http://www.awolmachine.com/page-1.htm

Has anyone seen of this? I don't drink but if I did the idea of no hang overs seems like a deal breaker. Go figure that US legislators are trying to ban it.

 

[UA_Iron]

saw it in the newspaper a couple weeks back. Already there's a giant push to ban or regulate the shit out of it.

Lawmakers are dumb and should be executed, exterminated, desecrated.

 

[deltreefitness]

saw it in the newspaper a couple weeks back. Already there's a giant push to ban or regulate the shit out of it.

Lawmakers are dumb and should be executed, exterminated, desecrated.

No shit. I read about that part too. Jacob Sullum is a great author and a loud opponent of US drug policy. You might want to check out his column from Reason magazine about this. "The objections to AWOL reflect a longstanding American discomfort with intoxication and, more generally, with pleasure that seems to come too easily. One of AWOL's main selling points is freedom from hangovers, which its detractors consider an invitation to excess: If you're not miserable the next day, how do you know when you've had too much?"

He also has a great book "Saying Yes: In Defense of Drug Use" which I highly recommend.

 

[deltreefitness]

i don't see the point as i actually enjoy the whole process of drinking a pint or a glass of wine but if the government doesn't like it then that's a good sign

Uhhmmm, no hang overs seemed like a selling point to me lol.

 

[UA_Iron]

lawmakers are so ridiculous

I dont feel like I should be supporting their salaries with the taxes I pay just so they can regulate things that shouldnt be regulated.

I'd like to try this AWOL deal

 

[GoldenDelicious]

the 'no calories' claim is bullshit, since it gets into your body one way or the other

also, i wont accept that youll get a bigger, better buzz off a small dose of ethanol, since it takes a good hour to clear a measly 10g of ethanol from your body anyway...meaning the single shot of ethanol youre having over the half hour period, despite avoiding molestation by your liver as soon as it gets out of your gut and into your blood via the first pass effect, isnt going to even come close to the amount of ethanol floating around your brain after youve swallowed 4 normal shots, meaning that the amount of drug at the site of action of the drug (the brain) really isnt going to be significant.

i will leave open the possibility that the rapid delivery to the brain of drug will make the effect more noticeable...but id have to chat to some people who have tried it

anyone who wants to know what this feels like could just jam some ethanol into someones asthma nebuliser or something - youll get an idea of what its like rather quickly

ok i have to go find my facemask and a spritzer bottle of vodka, brb

 

[Gymgurl]

the 'no calories' claim is bullshit, since it gets into your body one way or the other

also, i wont accept that youll get a bigger, better buzz off a small dose of ethanol, since it takes a good hour to clear a measly 10g of ethanol from your body anyway...meaning the single shot of ethanol youre having over the half hour period, despite avoiding molestation by your liver as soon as it gets out of your gut and into your blood via the first pass effect, isnt going to even come close to the amount of ethanol floating around your brain after youve swallowed 4 normal shots, meaning that the amount of drug at the site of action of the drug (the brain) really isnt going to be significant.

i will leave open the possibility that the rapid delivery to the brain of drug will make the effect more noticeable...but id have to chat to some people who have tried it

anyone who wants to know what this feels like could just jam some ethanol into someones asthma nebuliser or something - youll get an idea of what its like rather quickly

ok i have to go find my facemask and a spritzer bottle of vodka, brb

I knew that machine I have would come inhandy for something besides helping breath....lol

 

[alien amp pharm]

goldendelicious = buzzkill

 

[Buddy_Christ]

the 'no calories' claim is bullshit, since it gets into your body one way or the other

also, i wont accept that youll get a bigger, better buzz off a small dose of ethanol, since it takes a good hour to clear a measly 10g of ethanol from your body anyway...meaning the single shot of ethanol youre having over the half hour period, despite avoiding molestation by your liver as soon as it gets out of your gut and into your blood via the first pass effect, isnt going to even come close to the amount of ethanol floating around your brain after youve swallowed 4 normal shots, meaning that the amount of drug at the site of action of the drug (the brain) really isnt going to be significant.

i will leave open the possibility that the rapid delivery to the brain of drug will make the effect more noticeable...but id have to chat to some people who have tried it

anyone who wants to know what this feels like could just jam some ethanol into someones asthma nebuliser or something - youll get an idea of what its like rather quickly

ok i have to go find my facemask and a spritzer bottle of vodka, brb

What about anal ingestion of alcohol? I've heard it will get you drunker faster with less alcohol because it's absorbed faster and you don't have to digest it, it's absorbed into the blood vessles directly into the blood stream.