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On a more serious note, don't use chloroform to knock someone else. It takes a while to kick in, and it has serious aftereffects. There's a reason anesthesiologists don't use it anymore now that we have safer ways to put people under
What would you reccomend, my not at all scary friend?
No anesthesia is without risks. It's usually a tailored and adaptive combination of drugs in the hospital.
Hitting someone with a blunt object over the back of the head?
Honestly that's probably safer
People only pass out from head impacts if the brain damage is bad enough to be permanent, but don't always pass out from receiving permanent brain damage, so this is really bad, too. I've read (but probably on Reddit rather than a real source) that people pass out from hypoxia well before any permanent damage, so choking people is safer, especially if you learn to do a blood-choke properly so don't risk crushing their windpipe. Alternatively, lure them into an operating theatre where a qualified anaesthetist who knows their weight and medical history is waiting, as they're really the only people who should be making other people pass out.
A blood choke also lasts like, 7 seconds. I knew a guy in highschool who used to do it to himself as a party trick.