Your basic thriller detective movie. I thought Ryan Gosling was great (also see The Believer) but there was this scene I was wondering about, if you've seen it, the two main characters are discussing their murder plot so they decide to get high. Ryan's character is smoking a joint and offers it to the other guy, but he denies and said he has something better. He used a spoon and some sort of liquid and dropped a almost sugar cube looking thing in the spoon and poured the liquid over it into a glass. He said that poets used this for inspiration and had a higher concentration of THC. I was wondering if anyone knew what this was? Because I definetly want to try it.
sugar cube special spoon liquid into glass poets ummm, the artiste crown in paris back in the fin de sicle era (french impressionists, etc.) loved to stop by the bar and have a few glasses of absinthe liquer... it had no THC in it (well, no hemp flowers in the traditional recipe) but did have wormwood extract (& a dozen other herbs) , which supposedly may act on some of the same neurorecptor sites as THC... then there's "green dragon" which is a hi-proof booze extract of pot or hashish...
Ahh thank you my friend. I found this great article on Absinthe. First, pour about an inch of the translucent green liquid into a glass like a small garden trowel, with holes in it–on the glass, set a sugar cube on top of the spoon, and slowly drizzle water over the sugar cube, so that it dissolves and drips into the liqueur, which turns cloudy as its essential oils precipitate into the water. Take a long draught, sit back, and savor history: This is absinthe, a legendary liqueur that has been illegal throughout most of the world for nearly a century. http://www.micheleannajordan.com/col041903.html the rest of the article, if intrested, can be read by clicking the link.
& absinthe was made "illegal" in the USA (& many other countries) by the early 20th century... maybe "illegal" just means that yoiu can't sell it in bars or liquor stores, thought... becuase apparently you can purchase it from some european distillers (for personal use, i guess...) look at toulouse lautrec's painting "the absinthe drinkers" for somebody who'e in their cups... it is possible that some of the problems with absinthe drinking was the fact that a shot from the bottle was ~ 170 proof (~ 85% EtOH) & not just the fact that the booze had thujone & many other chemicals from the herbs...
