GBL Control Measures Due To Possible Date Rape Use Being Explored
This article was originally published in The Tan Sheet
Executive Summary
The Drug Enforcement Administration is "reviewing various control measures of GBL" that may reduce the possibility the substance could be converted into the related compound GHB and used as a date rape drug. DEA Deputy Director Terrance Woodworth announced the possibility in comments prepared for a March 11 House Commerce/Oversight & Investigations Subcommittee hearing on date rape drugs.
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