absinthe... a hallucinogen??

legal absinthe, not absente:
http://www.drinklucid.com/lucid_flash.cfm

 

it is just a strong alcoholic drink.
no drugs or anything

 

Werd. The federal law covers sale. State law covers posession.

 

in my experience - and i'm an avid absintheur - there are some which are mildly MILDY hallucinogenic, but if you sit on your couch and watch the hallucinations going on, then you're a rarity 'cos once you start drinking it, you'll stand up or lean over or do something that wakes your brain back up and tells it that its gettin drunk

and then you need more, obviously

and then the room does the usual alcohol-induced spinning and swaying and blurring
so the the subtle (or strong - are you drinking proper absinthe in france/germany?) hallucinations just get smeared by the inebriation, shall we say?

i don't know
anyhoo

x

 

when i was in europe the bartender said in the past it did make u see shit but now its just like a higher % drink

 

its the movies that make absinthe seem like its a powerful hallucinogen that makes everyone want to buy it. I had a bottle brought back to me by a friend that was in amsterdam . its nothing special, just high in alcohol content.

 

back in the 19th. century absinthe had wormwood in it. wormwood is a poison. at a low dose it can cause hallucinations; at a high dose death. people were droping dead all over from od on the wormwood in absinthe. only when the governments' of the u.s.a. and other nations started to regulated it in the early 20th century was the wormwood banned from it's manufacture. absinthe was like snake oil back in the 19th. century. you never knew what you could be getting from bottle to bottle!

 

wormwood contains a chemical called thujone, in a big enough dose it could give you a seizure, less than 10 % of the thujone aquired in the herb maserate survives the distillation, in order to get the required dose of thujone to do anything you need to drink way more absinthe than a normal person could handle, i think it was 665 liters in an 2 hour period or somthing awful like that. everyone allways jumps on wormwood, i think probubly because it is less known about and is bitter as all mother fucking shit, a major component of a proper absinthe is anise, if your sinthe is without anise it is not absinthe. Majority of absinthe available for sale are crap, especialy those from the czech repuplic and germany, if it doesnt have an "E" at the end on the label it will be crap. best way is to make your own, but even if you makes it right it can still come out like crap, theres an art to it that if you are willing to spend the time to learn it comes out just right and perfect. if you dont have a still dont try, and no it wont make you hallucinate, i mostly get straightening of vision and grand realizations. New variety we're gonna try to craft, blue absinthe that will make you hallucinate.

in the 19th century there were grades of absinthe, ordinary, fine, and swiss. swiss being fine shit, fine being good enough to drink but not the best and ordinary which was cheap rotgut shit, the cheap rotgut shit used a lot of wierd chemicals to make it green and louche that were poisonous if the absinthe drinker drank enough, poisonings were because of cheap shit from back then, not because of wormwood.

about the same time as the irish potato famin the french had a grape blight and the wine industry was boned! you know how the frenchys are about wine ya know? they suck tons of it. only rich fucks could afford it so the regular working class switched to drinking absinthe which was cheaper, tasted like anise, was a bright intruiging color and turned colors and swirled when water was dripped it in, the often very long drawn out abinthe ritual, had a sort of less understood wierd appeal that starving bum artists hanging around bistros could scrape their change up for and as custom would prepare and consume very slowly usualy around 5 or 6 in the afternoon, the green hour. the wine industry got it's shit together and used it's government and church ties to portray absinthe as evil and have it made illegal, it first happened it switserland, and result everyone else did it cause at the time everyone thought they knew what was going on, poor communication ya know. marijuana is mostly illegal because dupont wanted to sell nylon.