[peteretep]

Your head is liable to E-X-P-L-O-D-E when you hear that there's a drug for sale - nationwide - that's a CNS depressant, where 1 gram of is FATAL. Can you believe that? And yet they sell this thing called "nicotine" to people as young as 16!

Perhaps effect per weight is a shitty measure?

[nknighthb]

Ugh. I was going to just step out, but I can't let this pass, because it's incredibly insulting.

I'm not arguing for the banning of a substance. I'm not arguing one substance is subjectively better than another. I don't care that GHB or any other drug is being used in studies.

You're reading something into my comments that simply is not there. Please stop it.

[peteretep]

What was your comment about then? You appear to be comparing simply effect per weight, and drawing conclusions from that?

[nknighthb]

My comment was about what was, in my view, an objectively inaccurate characterization of alcohol being "just as powerful" a CNS depressant as GHB. That is all it was. If you want to argue about something else, I'm not the opponent you're looking for.

[peteretep]

If you were right, people would routinely refer to nicotine as being the most powerful street drug, given it's punch-per-gram ratio.

[nknighthb]

Yes, it turns out that my use of "power" and "potent" as synonyms is not universal. My deepest apologies for my inexcusably moronic assumption that people used a particular word the same way I do.

Are we done now?