Longer alcohols also contribute a lot to hangovers.
Nice, so we can have a beer that doesn't get us drunk, but does give a hangover?
A puritian dream. Pay, sinner, pay for your hedonistic pleasures!
> A puritian dream. Pay, sinner, pay for your hedonistic pleasures!
I am not aware of such uses for alcohol, but for hallocinogenic drugs, there exist people who don't use them for hedonistic pleasures, but for getting creative, scientific or spiritual inspirations.
Early in my career in the 90s, I knew more than one programmer who claimed to be most productive when buzz-coding.
I never really understood it. To me, focusing intently on a task always seemed like a good way to kill a nice buzz.
Huh?
Alcohol not used for creativity?
Ask all the writers who drank themself to death .. or rather, how many writers didn't become alcoholics at some point.
(But personally I don't like alcohol for creativity)
From a cursory search, yes. It is more toxic than ethanol, even in gross terms like LD50.
https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/isoamylol#section=...
https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/source/hsdb/605