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Different alcohols.

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EnzymeDeficient

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I heard from a friend a long time ago that there is a type of alcohol that supposedly has more and/or different alcohol groups than ethanol, but that gives the same effects in smaller doses, and is safe to ingest at such dosages (well, at least as safe as ethanol, lol)

Can anybody shed some light on the idea? Is there such a thing? What could it be? What kind of dosages are involved?
 
GHB has an alcohol group, a carboxylic acid group that you could also see as an alcohol group, and has the same effect as alcohol in much smaller dosages.

Could be propanol or butanol, but these are both quite toxic and give you quite the hangover. :\
 
some of the alkynes have received glowing reviews. e.g.

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Probably GHB if it was a long time ago. It's generally recognized as safe in moderate doses, and has effects very similar to alcohol, without the hangover.

The alkynes above and 2m2b have only started to become popular very recently, so he probably wasn't talking about them, but early reports and theory suggest they are considerably less harmful than alcohol.
 
1,4-butanediol has more alcohol groups per molecule (there's only one type of alcohol group), it has similar effects at smaller dosages. I guess it's fairly safe, I haven't taken it that much so that wasn't much of a concern. Oh, and 2.5 mL, drunk over 30 min or so, was a fairly strong dose. I'm sure you could go higher but I never felt the need.
 
Probably 1,4-butanediol.

Could be propanol or butanol, but these are both quite toxic and give you quite the hangover.
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These tend to be considered less toxic, or equally toxic but given the correspondingly lower doses, less toxic practically.
 
skillet said:
there's only one type of alcohol group
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Sorry, when i said different alcohol groups, i meant at different sites on the molecule, or on a different molecule entirely.

I don't think it was GHB. He seemed to think it only had alcohol groups. Maybe it was 1,4-butanediol or 2-methyl-2-butanol.

He seemed convinced the effects were almost identical but perhaps he was mistaken.

Thanks for some names, now I can look into it further. :D
 
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