salvia is still legal! wooo!

It DOES make the heart grow fonder...

Actually it is legal to possess absenthe in the US in most states, just not sell or distribute it.

I dunno about halucinate, but it sure gets ya hammered in a hurry

Absinthe illegal? bah. it's easier to find it in the US than it is to find sugar cubes anyway.

you can purchase absinthe in the united states that doesn't contain the chemical Thujone. This chemical is what makes you hallucinate and it is added to absinthe in an herb called wormwood. i'm not really sure why you would want to drink the fake stuff tho, it's still terribly bitter.

Tasted this stuff in the itty bitty country of Armenia...just had a shot of it...not so much to hullucinate from it...I've seen videos of a couple of my friends who got trashed from it...one guy thought a bush was a leprechaun with wood (not the one you get from trees...)

Wired had a good article on absinthe awhile back:

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.11/absinthe.html

I've tried Ted Breaux's, and found it infinitely better then some of the other so called "fake" ones out there. And you actually drip ice water over the sugar cubes on the spoon, into the absinthe. Only thing I can think of that the spoon does is keep the water cold as it drips through?

And no hallucinating on my end either.

only pussies add sugar to their absinthe

Heathen - no one pours absinthe through the sugar - you pour the water you're cutting the absinthe with through the sugar.

Is there anything you can't currently get with a flash drive stuck in it somewhere?

you actually pour cold water on the sugar cube. I personally enjoy absinthe.

That still doesnt tell me what exactally it does.

@FROST1: It's a wireless adapter.

It's a self-launching multi-platform 1.5 hour video manual completely explaining what the spoon does and how to use and maintain it.

Absinthe doesn't taste that bad. F*cks you up quickly, though.

Good quality absinthe (search: Jade liqueurs, expect to pay $80 for a 750ml bottle) needs no sugar, but I like a bit of sugar as a preference. A dilution of VERY cold water is necessary. It opens up the flavours, develops the louche, etc. Under no circumstances should one light a sugarcube that is going to be consumed with absinthe on fire. This is poor form and pure hot topic mallgoth faggotry. No absinthe I've ever had made me "hallucinate". According to articles I've read, the thujone is reduced to a parts per million level in the distillation process.

There are good articles about absinthe on wired.com and another article the new yorker did that are both good primers. Again, search jade liqueurs or Ted Breaux.

I've had Sebor Absinthe imported to me. It is expensive for a liquor. but being fermented in wormwood does allegedly give it hallucinogenic properties. However, I never experienced any. I have read that anymore than 2 shots/drinks of it, and the alcohol overbears the thujon's effects and all that happens is you get drunk. If you want to know what it tastes like, it tastes like Annice (liquorish) I think its nasty personally.

*sigh* i wish absinthe was legal.. damn politics.

When I was in london 2 months ago, I finally fufilled my dreams of drinking absinthe. So, several shots later, and a couple japanese beers (the place only had one beer on tap...but they had 6 taps of it...) I found myself drunkenly wandering around london. Did I hallucinate? not in the least. I had it several times since that day, and there was no hallucination. Salvia is a ton of fun, and that makes me hallucinate. Absinthe's illegality is crap, and I really think it's a matter of time before it's made legal again. However, Salvia is on it's last legs. word has it, it will be made illegal within the next few weeks...at least here in NY.

Absinthe tasts good to me, but has never gotten me drunk or make me hallucinate. NyQuil on the other hand is another story. I wonder what would happen if I decanted water over a sugarcube into NyQuil.

Here's the way I was served Absinthe whilst at an undisclosed location in England. (Actually, just a New Year's party at a flat in Wolverhampton)

The Czech- or Bohemian-style absinth lacks many of the oils in absinthe that create the louche, and a modern ritual involving fire was created to take this into account. In this ritual, absinth is added to a glass and a sugar cube on a spoon is placed over it. The sugar cube is soaked in absinth then set on fire. The cube is then dropped into the absinth setting it on fire, and water is added until the fire goes out, normally a 1:1 ratio. The crumbling sugar can provide a minor simulation of the louche seen in traditional absinthe, and the lower water ratio enhances effects of the high-strength alcohol.

Taken from Wikipedia

OK, the you can get Absinthe still, but they have removed (down to parts per million) the wormwood component.

The original DOES make you hallucinate, or else they would not have outlawed it in Europe.

People were killing their spouses and it is why Vincent van Gogh is thought to have cut off his ear...

This'll go great with my corn bobber!

Here's the link to the Wired article on absinthe. It's pretty interesting reading.

[One of the reasons I like Wired is that they have all the articles online free...still like having paper copies for the pictures and water-resistance (I read over breakfast), plus at $10 per year for a thick glossy magazine it's a steal.]

legal over here in Oz and it's kinda trippy but I reckon a bottle of good sake is better.