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Before there was LSD, writers, artists, and bohemians of all stripe turned to the creativity-enhancing powers of an exotic green apéritif consumed with a sugar cube to cut its bitterness.
Made with wormwood, absinthe has long been thought to be closer to a drug than to an alcoholic beverage. It was believed to bring on as much depravity as it did creativity, and was banned for decades in many countries.
But according to ScienceDaily, a team of researchers in Europe and the United States has studied the drink and concluded that it’s actually absinthe’s higher alcohol content that has made people feel the “hallucinations, facial contractions, numbness, and dementia” attributed to it.
With the spirit legal again, you can see for yourself if it inspires you to create the great American novel or painting. Or, you could just sample the lollie version.
I think marijuana should be legalized,..Thats what I think. Better for you than alcohol.
There is an important element missing from this discussion: The absinthe in question is not 140 proof. It begins that way as many spirits do, but when twice their volume of water is added the alcohol is diluted quite a bit. Where the alcohol once was 70% of the original volume it becomes more like 25% in the diluted form.
This is exactly what I've been saying for years. Anyone who has been drunk on both an 80-proofish spirit and beer knows that there's a market difference between the two. As someone who used to drink a lot of 151 proof rum, there was also a clear difference between that buzz and normal spirits - it was trancier, hallucinogenic, etc. My experience w/ Absinthe was exactly the same.
Hate to point it out, but there is vastly more thujone in Stove-Top stuffing then there has ever been in absinthe. Most comestible varieties of sage have a much higher concentration of thujone than Artemesia absinthium.
And thujone is simply not an analogue of THC. Far closer analogues for THC exist in the extract of hops used in nearly every American beer, and thusfar there has been little...+READ
Hate to point it out, but there is vastly more thujone in Stove-Top stuffing then there has ever been in absinthe. Most comestible varieties of sage have a much higher concentration of thujone than Artemesia absinthium.
And thujone is simply not an analogue of THC. Far closer analogues for THC exist in the extract of hops used in nearly every American beer, and thusfar there has been little outcry on that note.
And lastly, thujone is remarkably stable in its extracted form as long as it remains disolved in alcohol. Any deterioration would be evinced by a white precipitate, and an oil slick on the surface of the sample. Neither was present in this testing.-COLLAPSE
the levels of thujone is much lower in modern absinthe's than the typical 19th century bottle.
thujone is an analogue of the THC molecule found in marijuana, so comparisons to LSD are specious at best
and the way it was banned very much mirrors the anti marijuana hysteria that followed a half century later
side note: vermouth means wormword, the primary thujone source in absinthe.
Interesting. I thought that the abseinthe that I had was "broken" because it did nothing. Now I know :)
OK, the thujone levels were low. And the bottles were circa 100 years old. Perhaps the thujone had deteriorated. Perhaps the artistic mind is more susceptible to the influence of this type of substance than the "lumpen" mind.
Is there a mythos surrounding Bacardi 151? None that I've heard of.