Although brewing wine and beer are similar at the start, distillation does have a few dangers that aren't present with brewing: alcohol is volatile and can explode, and the less obvious danger is the methanol and other potentially poisonous off cuts that come out of a still at the beginning and end of a run.
In this day and age of information, it makes no sense to prohibit home distillation. Stills are expensive, and anyone taking up the the hobby has access to a wealth of excellence information on the Internet.