I'm sorry, i missed counted. I felt high after one shot. I have had one and half and feel like i have been drinking and smoking weed all night. This after 20 minutes.

So, after 3 shots I probly shouldn't go ride the motorcycle in the city?

'All that we see and seem, is but a dream, within a dream.' --E.A. Poe

This weekend I was in Rochester, NY visiting a few of my friends for the weekend to go clubbing and just have some fun. We were going to a club called the piranah around midnight, but decided to make an appearance at a party that our friend we were staying with had been invited to.

When we arrived at the party, the hostess offered us a drink, she said 'We have, White Wine, Some different kinds of Beer, and we have Absinthe.' I just grinned, I had wanted to try absinthe for a very long time, and here was a girl just serving it at a party...

Watching her prepare the drink was probably half the fun, she poured about half a goblet full of the 'green godess' and then pour a tablespoon of sugar and dip the spoon into the absinthe, soaking the sugar, she then set fire to the spoonfull of sugar/absinthe, and as it melted she poured it into the absinthe, she then mixed ice water in to fill the rest of the glass and put the fire out. The drink turned from green/yellow to a minty greenish white. And it smelled like Black Liquorice or Good n Plenty.

That first small mouthful filled my mouth with a very strong, but not at all unpleasant taste and warmth, and when I swallowed, I felt it's warmth flow through me. Over the next 20 minutes, I drank from the glass, enjoying the flavor, and not rushing, and making conversation with the people at the party.

When we left to go to the club at about midnight, I was feeling very uplifted and warm and music was having some mild auditory hallucinations, music was just sounding so great in the car as my friend drove to the club. We walked into the club and paid, and I sat for a bit enjoying the music and the feeling from the absinthe.

At one point about a half hour after we arrived, the music was just seeming to flow through me and I couldn't sit down any longer, and I danced for about 1 1/2 hours until the club closed and we left. This is strange because I never dance, at least not very much. The music was having too much of a pull on me to resist.

I found a place that sells very powerful absinthe over the net, but it costs about 200 bucks a bottle, Dave and I are going to put together the money and buy a bottle.

I thoroughly enjoyed my night dancing with the 'green goddess'

Acid Matrix

Dream Well, There is still alot of beauty in the world.

If your picking up a bottle for yourself, and you'd rather have the lucidity than getting drunk from the high alcohol content, you're going to want to find one with a higher Thujone content (the chemical in wormwood that activates the same receptors that THC does,) as close to 100mg's/liter as you can find

I will keep that in mind, however, i'm not sure i am ready to try that stuff again, any time soon. It was a very strange night, we can just leave it at that.

I will keep that in mind, however, i'm not sure i am ready to try that stuff again any time soon. It was a very strange night, that was a little more intense and a lot weirder than i am used to. Let's just say the four of us who ended up drinking the stuff had rather erratic, immature, sometimes illegal behavior for most of the night. Absinthe is not a drink for lightweights, i'll tell you that.

I posted about how excited I was that it was re-legalized last july or august.
since then, I've had the pleasure of expiriencing a number of varieties. My favorite was a red Moldovan variety. I've had it straight as you seem to have tried it, but the most flavorful and effecting preperation is described below:


http://www.erowid.org/experiences/exp.php?ID=4964



If your picking up a bottle for yourself, and you'd rather have the lucidity than getting drunk from the high alcohol content, you're going to want to find one with a higher Thujone content (the chemical in wormwood that activates the same receptors that THC does,) as close to 100mg's/liter as you can find

Like this one

Century Absinthe 100mg thujone

Alcohol is a GABA agonist. It stimulates the production of this neurotransmitter which causes drowsiness and sleep. Thujone is a GABA antagonist. It prohibits alcohol from performing that part of it's function. Absinthe is therefore a type of 'speedball', it's chemical constituents at once promote the production of GABA and opens its receptors, while also closing those receptors off. This explains the "green fairy" effect that absinthe has, as oppossed to just normal drunkenness

Like this one

Century Absinthe 100mg thujone

Alcohol is a GABA agonist. It stimulates the production of this neurotransmitter which causes drowsiness and sleep. Thujone is a GABA antagonist. It prohibits alcohol from performing that part of it's function. Absinthe is therefore a type of 'speedball', it's chemical constituents at once promote the production of GABA and opens its receptors, while also closing those receptors off. This explains the "green fairy" effect that absinthe has, as oppossed to just normal drunkenness

Sounds about the same potentcy as "Lucid"

created by the man who busted his arse to re-legalize the fairey in the US.

Beg to differ. Kubler in Switzerland did the leg work with the help of the Swiss Embassy in Washington and that guy produced a ZERO thujone absinthe and so was then fast tracked. Kubler were not happy, as those guys behind Lucid in New York were able to piggy-back and get in first. Kubler absinthe is naturally <10ppm and does not use a chemotype of artemisia absinthium nor carbon extraction to eliminate the thujone content.

Hi Seuss

I would be really interested to know about which brands that you have tried vs Lucid. Some other ones that are worth checking out are Doubs Mystique and Roquette 1797. As far as USA "absinthe hygeniques" (the post ban term for the sanitized version) that are now available in the USA stores, I think for taste that Sirene is a good choice and so is Kubler.

Sirene

I am also interested in your opinion about the thujone effect and how it happens. Also, what is your experience when drinking? I use absinthe sometimes to solve problems, do you know what I mean about the cognitive effect? Any ideas about why?

Hi



Lucid is <10ppm as per FDA regs and enforced by the TTB. That means it can be anything from 0 - 10 (although it is actually zero) Century is the highest at 100mg (ten times the strength of standard European brands) that is commercially available - the 260+ stuff is HG (hausgemacht moonshine) The amers classification absinthe in Europe are all 10-35mg. At 35mg there is an effect IMHO.

Yes. Lucid contains an amount of thujone that is comparable to many pre-ban absinthes, many of which would have passed modern U.S. regulations. Any product that comes to the U.S. containing Grande Wormwood must also meet those same requirements, which are similar to the requirements of many other countries. According to extensive research conducted by T.A. Breaux and others in the scientific community, the thujone content of vintage absinthe was actually much lower than has been commonly believed. Breaux and others acquired dozens of vintage bottles of absinthe from estate sales and auctions and applied modern chemical analysis actually testing the thujone content of these absinthes to reach this conclusion. This research has been well documented and the findings remain generally undisputed.

I found this on Lucid's website, and while it doesn't give specific content, it does say it contains Thujone:

It is the year 1893. A basement cafe, Place St. Michel, Paris. The air is fetid with tobacco smoke, mixed with the pungent, acrid odor of absinthe. It is two o'clock in the morning. Some Parisian night birds, souteneurs, piles de joie, and the like,

So, where can you buy absinthe at? Is it still illegal in certain states?