And I used to drink butylene glycol to get high-- the 1,4 isomer, specifically. because I suffer from rosea, alcohol is actually many times more toxic to me than to other people. I was addicted to BDO, and it's cousins GHB and GBL for the better part of 20 years. Something I will avoid at all costs from 8 years ago till now.
Ethanol is pretty bad for me-- Even 1 tablespoon a day is bad for me. Here's stuff I've tried as a substitute for ethanol:
1-tert-amyl-alcohol--
very small quantity makes water taste like gasoline, causes heavy sedation, long lasting, feels much more toxic than ethanol, though it is not. About as euphoric as begin hit in the back of the head with a skillet. dangerous, toxic, likely addictive, and ghastly hangover. How fun is being knocked unconscious for 12 hours?
propylene glycol: said to cause CNS depression, even drinking 100 ml, had no effect. I've drank as much as four ounces to no effect.
butylene glycol (1,3 isomer) see above
butyl alcohol: at 6 times and intoxicating, and 3 times the toxicity of ethanol, it would be less toxic for me, since it does not break down into acetylahyde, the main culprit of rosea and hangovers. Would be ideal, but did NOT prove to be "6 times as intoxicating." Draks the equivalent amount to three shotglasses of 80 proof liquor and barely felt any difference to my sobriety at all.