^ Were they at a high school party?
Seriously though, it's got a 93% oral bioavailability, so other than a faster onset, snorting is not worth it since it won't last as long, and you are getting a much smaller percentage of the drug. Most people that snort it are likely feeling the effects from the drip, which is ending up in their stomach after snorting.... Might as well chew it up if you are looking for the faster onset.
My apologies for a slight grave dig, I just wanted to point out that a high bio-availability orally doesn't always mean the best bang for your buck, depending on the person of course, oral is better for actual everyday anxiety patients just using thrm while sober but for a person using them as a comedown tool from stims, 93% oral bioavailability really only comes into play when your stomache is empty, or once again you aren't using it to try get high so the slow digestion works great. Otherwise 93% oral bioavailability means fuck all if you have a meal in your stomache and are tryna come down from a stim high because then it just becomes "extended release" in a sense, because it may last longer but the peak blood plasma levels of it are lower during that longer period which makes oral useless if you are in the midst of a bad comedown. This is where lower-bioavailability, but much quicker acting routes of administration such as insufflation, sublingual, and rectal administration come into play.
Benzos actually are lipid soluble, so yes they are absorbed through the mucus membrane. The downside is u got 98% inactive binders and only 2% etizolam so it may not absorb to great just because binders are hogging the membrane.
I'd say if you want some quick relieve from a stim comedown, either crush the pill and put the powder under your tongue (sublingual), or give a go at plugging. Plugging isn't great ime though with etizolam because everything in my etizolam pellets appear to not be great at dissolving in even 5mls of water so a 10ml oral syringe my be the way to go because whenever I plugged a 1mg solid blue eti, I always ended up with some blue sludge that didn't dissolve left in the syringe. I suppose I could have cotton filtered it but from my understanding, benzos aren't water soluble anyways.
My conclusion:
Oral best used when ur just using it for anxiety during the day. Or to go to sleep if you have insomnia, so the lower blood plasma peak but longer duration will keep you asleep for longer.
Sublingual best used to kill a stim comedown cause it hits quicker, which is key for killing a stim comedown.
Insufflation and rectal both other viable quick hitting roa for a comedown, just make sure when snorting you snort very light so it just barely makes it to your nose membrane, or else it goes to the back of your throat and u just take it orally from the drip.
If you try to plug, a 5ml syringe is pretty much necessary . Preferably do half a eti in 5ml water, then the other half in another 5ml water... Unless u wanna shove the much larger 10ml oral syringe up ur ass to do it all at once... Not recommended though lol.