You should at least explain why you might want to say that: yes, GHB has fewer chronic effects on health (or possibly none). In that sense it's "better" than al

You should at least explain why you might want to say that: yes, GHB has fewer chronic effects on health (or possibly none). In that sense it's "better" than alcohol, assuming all users dose it correctly. This is, for example, why GHB has been successfully used to fight insomnia. However, life-threatening acute toxicity is easier to accidentally attain than with alcohol, because of the lower active dose and absence of harsh digestive reactions like alcohol tends to cause before acute poisoning. This makes alcohol compatible with reckless party settings, where GHB would become very dangerous. Concerning the addiction potential, comparing GHB and alcohol is like comparing two genocides of two types of plagues: they both suck. As for the whole 'date rape' argument, it really shows an excessive media demonization based on a few isolated cases, as opposed to the non-stop global catastrophe of date rapes caused by alcohol. I suppose nobody talks about those because, well, "it's nothing out of the ordinary".