The least poisonous of its siblings, yes. There is, in fact, an alcohol that 16 year olds can absolutely drink. Legally too! Isopropanol can be bought from your local store as hand sanitizer.
While it probably won’t kill you, the effects of the hangover is far far worse than typical ethanol. There’s a very good chance that anyone who drinks it will end up in the hospital. Turns out the nail polish remover the body makes from isopropanol is very dangerous.
But even that can’t compare to drinking methanol to get drunk, which is sure to make you blind, and then dead. Formaldehyde is even more bad for you than acetone is.
The least poisonous of its siblings, yes. There is, in fact, an alcohol that 16 year olds can absolutely drink. Legally too! Isopropanol can be bought from your local store as hand sanitizer.
While it probably won’t kill you, the effects of the hangover is far far worse than typical ethanol. There’s a very good chance that anyone who drinks it will end up in the hospital. Turns out the nail polish remover the body makes from isopropanol is very dangerous.
Huh. So it turns out something that sounds bad for you is bad for you.
But even that can’t compare to drinking methanol to get drunk, which is sure to make you blind, and then dead. Formaldehyde is even more bad for you than acetone is.