I got slipped GHB in a club once, wasn't raped. Was found outside asphyxiating on my own vomit. Woke up in a hostpital. It was a fucking nightmare. I don't have issues with GHB I do however have issues with scumbags that drug peoples drinks.
One of the quite real dangers of GHB is that it takes such a tiny amount that people who even have no ill intent could harm themselves or friends. I did ponder the thought experiment to some distributed by bartender and some way to ensure no one doses with booze or to that of dangerous levels.
We, of course, shall never see a setup such as this for GHB or ketamine, as they did find over a decade or two ago (I forget when doh!) which had booze sales dropping when ketamine as available. The amusing part also comes into the possible total actual harm statistically to deaths, accidents and health related social costs.
Not that by any remote way do I think people wouldn't OD, considering that people now mix a variety already. I'm not against such things in most cases, just to be clear. Heh, people... OD on fast food, takes longer though.
Now, as for your experience.
No longer do I visit the local bar scene, and it was more to visit my friends, not to forget dollar drink niiightts. Anyways, good chance and perhaps just the way we all were mentality wise, we did always seem to have an eye out for any of that evil lurking around. Never encountered much of any violence or of that ilk, beyond a silly thief that we caught somehow.
That would be interesting to see if there would be some form of simple wireless device that alerts specified contacts (offhand just if you have friends in the area/building/room) a parameter or two trigger, such as vitals. Also, we have that GPS fun to even bring greater safety for all... in theory. Humans are still humans.
So, life in prison for drink spikers? Death? What?
I find some actions very easy to find done by citizens forfeiting their life, though not to torture them as it seems some seek more that justice or merely to remove the cancer.
To the topic itself:
One day, it would be nice to have such individuals as Deb Stanaland providing some hard data backing up such claims.
It will never cease to have me wonder what world these people live in, which is far far way to this reality here with the real "DATE RAPE DRUG" seeming to slip by silly groups such as Crisis Response. I suppose allowing her to throw out that claim without a little further look to see where see finds her statement to be true.
How dare I say slip by? This is the only time the group has crossed my path, and the only time such groups have thus far are to attack GHB, yet again never drawing attention to booze.
The sheer rape stats on females from males either whist drunk or sober are so sicken and retch, it almost harms me in proverbial spirit, being male as so many that seem to not care much to their actions.
I will be rather surprised if there is something she has to cite that is valid to make ketamine anything to her statement.
The sheer loss to the assisted psychotherapeutic use along with just holding science and knowledge back overall from whining fools to the harms of what they know either little of or quite a lot, yet it's all refuted bunk. Not only the rather inane date-rape crap, however, that IS a part of the problem.
Time to go inquire with the possible enemy
Then I pause to annoyingly try to be reasonable and darnit, time to see her reasons