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Effete Snob

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9. No you can't

Reply to Shermann (Reply #6)

Thu Apr 20, 2023, 09:50 AM

Apr 2023

There is a federal law to the effect that you can make up to 50 gallons of wine or beer for non-commercial, personal use per year.

Nowhere can you distill spirits for drinking purposes legally, absent a license.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Jersey_distilled_spirits

In 2013, the New Jersey Division of Alcoholic Beverage Control issued its first distillery license in 94 years (since instituting Prohibition), to Jersey Artisan Distilling, based in Fairfield, in Essex County.

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MARIJUANA -- you can buy it, smoke it, give it to a friend. But you can't grow it. [View all] 3Hotdogs Apr 2023 OP

You can grow in Virginia underpants Apr 2023 #1

The explanation is pretty simple Effete Snob Apr 2023 #2

That is what I realized several years ago in CA. BigmanPigman Apr 2023 #8

You're allowed to grow pot... hippywife Apr 2023 #3

This is the New Jersey forum Effete Snob Apr 2023 #10

We are allowed so many plants for personal use in Canada, can't imagine why they can't Bev54 Apr 2023 #4

I grow both Cannabis markie Apr 2023 #5

You do this in New Jersey? Effete Snob Apr 2023 #11

So you can register your still in Jersey? Shermann Apr 2023 #6

---as long as you don't sell it. ---- side story --- this was about 70 years ago. 3Hotdogs Apr 2023 #7

No you can't Effete Snob Apr 2023 #9