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How would someone serve absinthe to make it hallucinogenic? what absinthe would be used?


What alcoholic volume/colour absinthe would be required to have a hallucinogenic effect?

70% … 80% 90% ??
green…black..?

Also how will it be served? i have heard a lot of things about burnt sugar or dissolving sugar etc.. but what is the best way?

thanks =)

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  1. #1 by Eiliat on July 15, 2010 - 5:31 pm

    Absinthe is not hallucinogenic and never has been. That is a myth started by French winemakers who were going out of business and perpetuated by US prohibitionists.

  2. #2 by richard k on July 15, 2010 - 6:06 pm

    I beg to differ with your first answer, it is the wormwood extract that causes hallucinations not the alcohol content. But it is usually above 70% anyway, and tastes vile !

  3. #3 by go avs! on July 15, 2010 - 6:11 pm

    I love absinthe and have drank it many times in France, Italy, Amsterdam and here in the states and have never, ever had a hallucination. If you want to hallucinate try LSD. This is in no way, shape or form a recommendation to take LSD it is a drug and is dangerous.

  4. #4 by Batgirl on July 15, 2010 - 7:05 pm

    “Wormwood is a stimulating tonic, resemling chamomile in it’s effects, but stronger and more disagreeable.In small doses, it operates like the simple bitters: in larger excites the pulse, increases the heat of skin, produces headache,and is said to have exhibited narcotic effect”

    A treatise on therapeutics, and pharmacology or materia medica – by George Bacon Wood – 1856

    Those effects are due to the combined action of thujone and alcohol. Alcohol and thujone are opposites – as alcohol is a GABA agonist and thujone is an antagonist. Alcohol stimulates the production of this GABA neurotransmitter and causes drowsiness and sleep. Thujone on the other hand prevents alcohol from performing that functiom. Real absinthe is actually a ‘speedball’, it’s constituents promote the production of GABA and open its receptors, while at the same time closing those receptors off. This is why the lucidity of an absinthe drinker contrasts to the state of normal drunkness and the experience has been described using the metaphor of the green fairy.

    BUT: all absinthe sold in the US is thujone free as per FDA regulations. If you want absinthe with *100mg thujone* you will have to look online.

    To serve add iced water at a ratio of 1:4 – 1:5 slowly to create a clouding (louche) and this is the herbal oils being released that are responsible for the absinthe effect.

  5. #5 by Trid on July 15, 2010 - 7:30 pm

    To make absinthe hallucinogenic, you’d have to add a hallucinogen. It isn’t (nor ever was) a hallucinogen.

    …and keep the fire away from your drink. It’s such a waste of alcohol and is an emergency room trip waiting to happen.

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