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moonshine
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moonshine
1. another word for moonlight
2. US and Canadian illegally distilled or smuggled whisky or other spirit


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Since its humble beginnings, when moonshiners raced on the sands of Daytona Beach during prohibition, it has grown into a sport with tens of millions of fans in America and around the world.
The transition from drugs' prohibition to their common availability, and the cautions and behavioral enforcement involved, won't be easy; same for the notion of taxing the stuff without creating a new culture of moonshiners.
For decades, the Treasury Department maintained that unregulated home brewing could not be permitted because it might provide cover to moonshiners, since the mash that remains after brewing beer can be distilled into liquor.
 
 
 
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