Doesn't change my question
First off, I did some looking into Quaaludes, and for what it's worth, they are not date rape drugs. They aren't drugs that knock you out and then somebody's loving you behind a dumpster when you wake up. It's a sedative that gets you high. At the time these women allege Cosby raped them, and during the time Cosby had admitted to giving women these drugs, they were really easy to get and they were known to be taken to make love better. It was like smoking weed and then having love, but easier to set up.
Knowing that, if your definition for consent excludes being high, then you'd also have to concede that you are not consenting if you're drunk, which would make one-night stands involuntary rape, which is a ridiculous phrase in and of itself. Is there a certain BAC that consent drops out at, and likewise, is there a certain level of highness that consent drops out at? Is it even possible to quantify highness?
In short, yes, you can consent. Does it mean people can't take advantage of others and get them drunk/high to forget them? Of course not, but to suggest that all high or drunk love is rape is dangerous.
It's all straw-grasping. That's the involuntary drugging-equivalent of saying that you slipped on the shampoo bottle in the shower.
Not really. "Drugging women" implies strictly that he was taking advantage of them. "Giving women drugs" could mean either that they asked for drugs and he provided them, that they took drugs together that Cosby owned or that he is actually repugnant and took advantage of them.