I drank absinthe last night, for the first time

[beefybull]

that is not real absinthe they are selling. that is liqour that tastes like absinthe minus the wormwood.

Exactly. Pernod, Herbsaint, all that shit they sell in AZ and New Orleans is fake. It's only legal in like 3 countries in the world, Czech Republic, Andorre and somewhere else.

Did a search, there is info on eBay on how to make absinthe and absinthe kits. The kits have wormwood and stuff, and you can get a CD with detailed instructions to make it for like $4-5. The kits seem kinda like a ripoff, you can get the ingredients on your own elsewhere.

Anyway, I've tried real Absinthe from overseas. It tastes pretty bad, like liquid licorice. Usually 120-140 proof, you're supposed to mix it about half and half with water & sugar. You can probably find some bottles on the net for $40-80 each + shipping. If I lived in Europe I'd be getting wild with it, selling it on eBay as "collectors bottles" and makin some fat bank.

 

[Burning_Inside]

Why would anyone drink this stuff and knowingly do irreparable damage to their bodies? All for a buzz? Shit if you're looking for godly insight go down some shrooms.

 

[Robert Jan]

I don't think I'll ever drink it either.

 

[Burning_Inside]

I don't think I'll ever drink it either.

You are smart.

There's reason's it's illegal in most very liberal nations.

 

[beefybull]

I'm sure a few shots of absinthe arent doing permanent damage. It's long-term repeated abuse that fucks up the brain. Thujone is a convulsant.

People like Van Gogh went on absinthe benders for days at a time and drank it out of a flask all day long.



Prove me wrong with some Thujone research/abstracts about short-term damage nuggas.

 

[plornive]

I had some absinthe last night. I assume it was not real absinthe, but it could have been real... Tasted very good.

 

[Burning_Inside]

I'm sure a few shots of absinthe arent doing permanent damage. It's long-term repeated abuse that fucks up the brain. Thujone is a convulsant.

People like Van Gogh went on absinthe benders for days at a time and drank it out of a flask all day long.



Prove me wrong with some Thujone research/abstracts about short-term damage nuggas.

here's this one though it doesnt quite say the time frame:

1. Bonard EC.
[Absinthe and malaria].
Revue Medicale de la Suisse Romande, 1992 Oct, 112(10):907-8 Language: French.
(UI: 93067843)
2. Bonkovsky HL; Cable EE; Cable JW; Donohue SE; White EC; Greene YJ; Lambrecht RW; Srivastava KK; Arnold WN.
Porphyrogenic properties of the terpenes camphor, pinene, and thujone Biochemical Pharmacology, 1992 Jun 9, 43(11):2359-68.
(UI: 92304361) Pub type: Historical Article; Historical Biography; Journal Article.

Abstract: Camphor, alpha-pinene (the major component of turpentine), and thujone (a constituent in the liqueur called absinthe) produced an increase in porphyrin production in primary cultures of chick embryo liver cells. In the presence of desferrioxamine (an iron chelator which inhibits heme synthesis and thereby mimics the effect of the block associated with acute porphyria), the terpenes enhanced porphyrin accumulation 5- to 20-fold. They also induced synthesis of the rate-controlling enzyme for the pathway, 5-aminolevulinic acid synthase, which was monitored both spectrophotometrically and immunochemically. These effects are shared by well-known porphyrogenic chemicals such as phenobarbital and glutethimide. Camphor and glutethimide alone led to the accumulation of mostly uro- and heptacarboxylporphyrins, whereas alpha-pinene and thujone resulted in lesser accumulations of porphyrins which were predominantly copro- and protoporphyrins. In the presence of desferrioxamine, plus any of the three erpenes, the major product that accumulated was protoporphyrin. The present results indicate that the terpenes tested are porphyrogenic and hazardous to patients with underlying defects in hepatic heme synthesis. There are also implications for the illness of Vincent van Gogh and the once popular, but now banned liqueur, called absinthe.


and then theres this link http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cach...ml+short+term+absinthe+effects+abstract&hl=en

where it says :Short-Term Tests: Thujone was tested at 1.5 and 3% in DMSO for its effect on the mutagenicity of aflatoxin B1 in Salmonella typhimurium strain TA100. The plates treated with thujone showed evidence of colony damage which the researchers felt indicated some mutagenic activity on the part of thujone (Kim et al., 1992).


Thujone concentrations of 1, 10, and 100 &g/ml were not cytotoxic to HeLa cells (Zolotovich et al., 1967).