Absinthe...the devil's nectar

[STR8UP]

A few of my friends stopped by last night before we went out. One of them brought a bottle of Absinthe and convinced me to do a couple of shots of it.

I had already had a couple of vodka tonics, and I take some medication that intensifies an alcohol buzz.

I think I had two vodkas and one or two shots of Absinthe by the time we left the house and maybe one more vodka at the club. Don't know how it happened, but I barely remember leaving my place to walk to the club, and I only remember a couple of flashes from the entire night. I had to call my friend today and ask her what happened.

So I guess I looked REALLY fukked up. She said I didn't look drunk, I looked like I was on some kind of drug. I don't remember being at one of the clubs we went to and I don't remember meeting up with several other people, but I guess it all happened. Evidently the security guard wouldn't even let me go upstairs at the pizza place since I looked so bad. They eventually had to take me back home early and strip me down and put me in my bed.

I don't know if it was the combo of the medication and the Absinthe or what, but I only had a few drinks and I was more fukked up than I have ever been in my life. Might have also had something to do with not having any food in my stomach....

This isn't the first time I have tried Absinthe. I had one in Prague just to say I had one in Prague. I also have a bottle of the GOOD stuff I brought back from that trip, which I tried awhile back. Kinda made me feel like I was floating off my chair, pretty bizarre.

 

[BluEyes]

You're not supposed to drink absinthe straight...

There's a whole bunch of things you can mix it with...And don't forget the sugar cube!


That being said, yeah absinthe is pretty powerful stuff..I mix it with redbull, vodka, and gatorade when I go out drinking.

I just buy a decent sized bottle and do this:

1 full can of redbull
4 shots of vodka
3 shots of absinthe
top the bottle off with gatorade

The vodka and absinthe take care of you for the rest of the night, the redbull prevents you from getting tired as the party windes down, and the gatorade kills the hangover in the morning.

 

[CCKazi007]

You're not supposed to drink absinthe straight...

There's a whole bunch of things you can mix it with...And don't forget the sugar cube!


That being said, yeah absinthe is pretty powerful stuff..I mix it with redbull, vodka, and gatorade when I go out drinking.

I just buy a decent sized bottle and do this:

1 full can of redbull
4 shots of vodka
3 shots of absinthe
top the bottle off with gatorade

The vodka and absinthe take care of you for the rest of the night, the redbull prevents you from getting tired as the party windes down, and the gatorade kills the hangover in the morning.

That's TUCKER MAX DEATH MIX! you stole his drink! anyways where would one go to aquire absinthe? since it's suppose to be illegal in the U.S.!?

 

[Deep Dish]

You know what, STR8UP, there's this awesome bistro downtown called Absinthe Bar. By their namesake, they of course have a whole slew of drinks with absinthe, although albeit non-hallucingenic, hence legal, but make no mistake it's very potent. Just one glass gets me very tipsy and with another half a glass I'm almost out. I don't know what's the potency rate of their absinthe but some absinthe can be 150 proof. (For all you beer drinkers with your 10 proof beer—hah!).

Their most potent drink is the Kiss of Death, and what a mighty one, absinthe plus champagne. The absinthe hangovers are particularly strange, not much by way of wanting to puke but with a strange burning sensation and concentrated in the chest; kinda feels like crashing on ecstasy.

 

[Master Bates]

Where can you buy absinthe? And where can you acquire hallucinagenic absinthe if it's illegal here?

 

[insanity]

i am curious what is this absinthe is, that i never tried before. i am always looking for a new kick. just as long as it doesn't turn you into a psychoctic or anything.

what is it? i haven't been into the drug scene for a while so i'm out of the loop when it comes to the next big buzz.

is it a certain cough syrup or stain remover.....what is it?

 

[Centaurion]

Go to East-Europe if you want the real deal. The spew they sell in the US is sh!t .

 

[realsmoothie]

There's no wormwood in North American absinthe, so there's no hallucinogenic qualities to it. It's just alcohol.

 

[PRMoon]

There are no hallocinatory properties to any form of absinthe. The chemical that was suppose to cause the hallocinations is Thujone (which has a similar shape to THC) only exist in small amounts (4-7mg/l per bottle, not 300mgs as it was thought and sellers try to bank off of). You'd have to drink at least 4 bottles to experience mild hallucination but it's more then proboble you'd die from alcohol poisoning first.

 

[KarmaSutra]

The green fairy is still only truly found in Europe. Along with bad oral hygiene and worse coffee.

You can't find real moonshine anywhere but here in the south. I live in the sticks and I've had some real moonshine cooked up by good 'ol boy rednecks and let me tell you something Jack, it will fvck you up. Lighting in a mason jar.

 

[Centaurion]

Moonshine is the sh!tnitz. We have something that is called 9-6 (Ni-seks) in Norway, which is 96% pure alcohol. That WILL mess you up! First time I got drunk, I got drunk on that stuff.

 

[Celadus]

I bought some Absinthe from a website in the Neatherlands. There are a lot of websites that will ship it to you. They charge a private courier fee but I think its BS to get more money from you.

It doesn't make you hallucinate but it definitely gave me a different buzz than I'm used too. Could have been placebo though. My friends were shrooming and I wanted to feel something...I drank some before my last college exam and I swear I felt smarter....

Like PRMoon said, thujone is the good stuff. The site I bought it from sells up to 30mg. That's supposedly the legal limit in a lot of countries.

If that "medication" STR is talking about was Xanax that would explain the black out.

 

[STR8UP]

I bought some Absinthe from a website in the Neatherlands. There are a lot of websites that will ship it to you. They charge a private courier fee but I think its BS to get more money from you.

It doesn't make you hallucinate but it definitely gave me a different buzz than I'm used too. Could have been placebo though. My friends were shrooming and I wanted to feel something...I drank some before my last college exam and I swear I felt smarter....

Like PRMoon said, thujone is the good stuff. The site I bought it from sells up to 30mg. That's supposedly the legal limit in a lot of countries.

If that "medication" STR is talking about was Xanax that would explain the black out.

Yea, it was an anxiety med in the same class as xanax. I only take a low dose but it pretty much doubles up the effects of alcohol. I have to make sure I don't drink too much nowadays.

But I really didn't drink that much that night. It HAD to be the absinthe...I can't come up with any other explanation. I have lost track of time once or twice in my life but it's never happened at 11:30 before I left my house!

The absinthe I bought in Prague I believe has 30mg of thujone. That was the highest content we could find. I think it cost about $15US for the bottle. These websites that are selling similar stuff for $150-$200 are getting away with robbery!

 

[Master Bates]

So is there any way to get quality (or any) absinthe in the US without getting robbed?

 

[Celadus]

Some websites will rip you off but I bought a bottle of 30mg for about 40 bucks. If it has 30mg its called bitter(maybe biter) one of those. The website I dealt with was reasonable in prices. Not sure if I can post the website but if anyone wants it, PM me. It goes into the history of it a lot.

Czech absinthe is actually considered bottom barrel absinthe for the most part.

You really have to be careful with anxiety medicine and alcohol. THe only time I've blacked out was on xanax and whiskey. I was standing in a frat house kitchen at midnight thinking I was going to go home because I didn't feel well. The next thing I know its 7AM and I'm at my computer jerking off. I didn't realize I had been out all night until I couldn't find my keys and everyone was like "Man, you were wasted last night. I saw you at x...." And I was like "I didn't go there..." Apparently I did and in the process was raped by some fat girl...I claim rape anyway.

 

[STR8UP]

You really have to be careful with anxiety medicine and alcohol. THe only time I've blacked out was on xanax and whiskey. I was standing in a frat house kitchen at midnight thinking I was going to go home because I didn't feel well. The next thing I know its 7AM and I'm at my computer jerking off. I didn't realize I had been out all night until I couldn't find my keys and everyone was like "Man, you were wasted last night. I saw you at x...." And I was like "I didn't go there..." Apparently I did and in the process was raped by some fat girl...I claim rape anyway.

Haha, in the past I have messed around with the chick who "took care of me" and stripped me down and put me into bed that night. She could have had her way with me and I wouldn't have known any better. Hell, all three of them could have fukked me silly. That would be my luck.....getting gang raped by three chicks (one of them a stripper!) and not remembering a goddamn thing.

Don't want to sound like some kind of drug addicted alkie or something, but I take my anxiety meds before having a few drinks all the time. You're right, you DO have to be careful. But the medication has helped me TREMENDOUSLY with social anxiety. It just so happens that when I need the med I am usually in a social situation where there is alcohol being consumed. Plus I tend to drink less, which is always a good thing.

 

[STR8UP]

You know what, STR8UP, there's this awesome bistro downtown called Absinthe Bar. By their namesake, they of course have a whole slew of drinks with absinthe, although albeit non-hallucingenic, hence legal, but make no mistake it's very potent. Just one glass gets me very tipsy and with another half a glass I'm almost out. I don't know what's the potency rate of their absinthe but some absinthe can be 150 proof. (For all you beer drinkers with your 10 proof beer—hah!).

Their most potent drink is the Kiss of Death, and what a mighty one, absinthe plus champagne. The absinthe hangovers are particularly strange, not much by way of wanting to puke but with a strange burning sensation and concentrated in the chest; kinda feels like crashing on ecstasy.

Thought I already responded to this, maybe my computer froze up, oh well.

But yea, I have been there. A friend of mine works for 106.7 and I think they did some kind of promotion with them. Went there with her and some other friends one night...pretty cool. I want to try their food sometime too.

And just to clarify, I didn't have a hangover the next day. I hadn't consumed enough of anything to be hungover. PREEEEEETY bizarre!