Seriously, date-rape drugging is at a low for various reasons, but the biggest reason is that they were never all that prevalent. Who needs to leave an obvious paper trail by spiking some poor woman/man's drank when you can just buy them another drink or five. Seriously, in my college experience, I have witnessed, and stopped on a few occasions, a number of situations meeting my criteria for date rape. My anecdotal experience has been only once was ghb/bl/1,4 suspected, while the rest involved pressured alcohol consumption, while they predator lurked in wait for victim to loose enough control to be easily taken advantage of.
Honestly, you would have to go through a lot of trouble to produce potassium GHB, I mean, I'm no chemistry genius, but if you can convert NA GHB to K GHB, it certainly isn't as easy as producing it from GBL. One would have to use Potassium GHB, as Sodium GHB would be way to noticeable. Most of the benzos aren't strong enough to put someone under. The ones that are, aren't easily available. I honestly cannot imagine someone regularly using NMDA receptor antagonist, as the consistency would vary so much. Say they used ketamine, how would they plan movement of victim from point A(bar, party, club, etc.) to point B(at shortest bathroom, room upstairs, car, apartment) with out someone noticing, I mean they would have to be very familiar with oral ketamine effects. They'd have to be able to calculate weight and height based dosage; they'd have to know how long the various effect stages take and last, which would require knowledge of subjects (sorry I meant victim) stomach contents; they would be presuming the victim did not have a tolerance, natural or other, to the effects, and they would either have to be intimately familiar with various other variables, or just leave them to presumption. Again, way easier to just keep buying victim rounds, and then pouncing. In retrospect, this post is pretty creepy, and I hesitate to submit it, but I wasted valuable study time writing it, so here goes.
