nytimes.com — One reason legal barriers have fallen is that the regulated chemical thujone, found in wormwood and once thought to have been the cause of absinthe’s lure and its dangers, did not show up in any significant quantities in analyses of historical absinthe. So these authentic replicas, despite containing wormwood, do not pose a legal challenge.
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salsamanNov 14, 2007
Having had lots and lots of absinthe, I can attest to the lack of hallucinatiuons or "unsettling shadows" though there is some stimulating effect due to all the herbs it contains.Lots of info at the Fée Verte FAQ:<a class="user" href="http://feeverte.net/faq-absinthe.html">http://feeverte.net/faq-absinthe.html</a>
goodbyeworldNov 14, 2007
<a class="user" href="http://www.tuckermax.com/archives/entries/date/the_absinthe_donuts_story.phtml#280">http://www.tuckermax.com/archives/entries/date/the ...</a> FTW
bonestampNov 14, 2007
There is also the key ingredient "wormwood"... without that, it is not absinthe. Maybe you're right that it's not a drug, but it f**ks you up more than a lot of things that the police call "drugs". But, somebody convinced them there is a s**t load of money to be made on this stuff (taxes), so of course it's legal again.
dank123Nov 15, 2007
true absinthe is NOT coming to America. They are still limiting the thujone content to a level that is worthless. -it's like trying to smoke hemp and get high... sure the absinthe will get you smashed seeing as it's 70% alcohol, but it is not diterpene packed like what van gogh was drinking... this is all just media hype... i get absinthe shipped from alandia.de Great stuff!
Closed AccountNov 15, 2007
That's just your reflection in the mirror.
Closed AccountNov 15, 2007
Or ya know... get a real job. I dropped 80 bucks on a small bottle just to try it out. Worth it? Sure, for the experience and being able to say I've tried it. Would I buy it again? f**k no.
bizdorphNov 15, 2007
Absinthe does not make you hallucinate.It does not cause psychosis.There is absolutely nothing special about this drink except for the insanely high alcohol content and the flavour.I wish people would stop citing that dog-s**t waste of celluloid "Moulin Rouge" as the be-all end-all of absinthe knowledge.I drank my body weight in this stuff when I lived in the Czech Republic for the year. I tried many brands and many different methods of drinking and I never got anything but drunk...maybe a little bit crunk.Oh, and by the way: the two best brands, if you can get them, are Pernod original absinthe (probably the first ever made) and Absinthium, from the Czech Republic. Both are excellent as far as flavour and louching (that cloudiness when you mix water and sugar in) go.
lostarchitectNov 15, 2007
habanero pepper absinthe?!?!?!that's truly foul.
brundlefly76Nov 17, 2007
Believe it or not, not all drugs are created equal - some are addictive, some are not, some can damage your brain and/or body and some do not.To assume that all drugs you want to try affect you the same way as pot is just being stupid.
kcap122Nov 20, 2007
<a class="user" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thujone#Pharmacology">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thujone#Pharmacology</a> Wikipedia says thujone is a GABA receptor antagonist, so there's a good chance that it works against ethanol. That's pretty weird. It's possible thujone blocks some of the drunkenness of ethanol and allows it to affect things it wouldn't normally have a chance to (due to higher doses to achieve same level of intoxication). Could be like drinking while on amphetamine, alcohol takes on really different properties
taxavierMar 23, 2008
Actually wormwood is quite psychoactive on it's own...without alcohol being in the equation at all. Here's a link to the absinthe vault on erowid.org: <a class="user" href="http://www.erowid.org/chemicals/absinthe/">http://www.erowid.org/chemicals/absinthe/</a> , and here's a link to the wormwood vault: <a class="user" href="http://www.erowid.org/plants/wormwood/">http://www.erowid.org/plants/wormwood/</a>Erowid doesn't exactly have whole pages dedicated to something that does nothing. I highly suggest reading all the experience reports on erowid for absinthe and also for wormwood. This might clear some things up.