# Outrageous (or at least interesting) policy/law/rule loopholes that you have encountered **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 11, 2015, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/outrageous-or-at-least-interesting-policy-law-rule-loopholes-that-you-have-encountered/714736 "2015-03-11T01:35:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2015, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/outrageous-or-at-least-interesting-policy-law-rule-loopholes-that-you-have-encountered/714736/2 "2015-03-11T06:21:01Z")
Can only think of a loophole with negative consequences. [Korsakoff’s Syndrome](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korsakoff%27s_syndrome), an amnesiac syndrome where people can’t remember beyond a short time period, a la “50 First Dates” - they forget anything they’ve learned within the last few minutes, is caused by B-1 vitamin deficiency, most often via severe alcohol abuse, which robs you of B-1. Fortifying booze with Vitamin B-1 would eliminate the main cause of this syndrome. According to US regulations, vitamins cannot be added to food without labeling the food as such. But other US regulations forbid labeling alcohol with anything that implies that it might be good for you. So there’s no way to add Vitamin B-1 to booze in the U.S. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/outrageous-or-at-least-interesting-policy-law-rule-loopholes-that-you-have-encountered/714736)._