In The Future: Will You Need I.D. To Buy Baking Soda In Montana?

Why would anyone need an ID to purchase baking soda?

It seems like a ridiculous idea for anyone to need identification to purchase a baking ingredient anywhere on the planet. It's a pretty inert ingredient in most anything unless one is using it to make a volcano for a science project.

Baking soda's primary use in baking is according to Every day Health:

Baking soda acts as a chemical leavener. It reacts with an acid to produce carbon dioxide — or loads of bubbles — a process that allows cakes, cookies, and other baked goods to rise.

There are uses for cleaning in many applications like a makeshift toothpaste. It's gross, but it works. It also works as a pretty good deodorizer for your fridge.

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But, why would one need an ID to get Baking Soda in the future?

Well, a grip of years ago in Missouri, according to johnlocke.org, officials considered the product to possibly be restricted to people of a certain age on account of some nefarious uses of the ingredient in the manufacturing of illegal drugs such as Crack Cocaine.

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According to an How Stuff Works article, baking soda is used in the process to refine and manufacture crack in a process called washing.

We can probably rest assured that our boxes of baking soda in Montana will NOT go the way of a restricted item. As funny as it is to think that one would need an ID to bake a cake in Montana, I think baking soda is safe for the time being.