I wouldn't say absinthe has any hallucinagenic qualities at all. However, it is not liquor and does have psychoactive properties you won't find in any other spirit.
With that being said, I can respond to an intelligent previous post. The required ppm which is mg/liter I believe is less than 10 in the US. In Europe I think it's somewhere like 35 and I think the average European absinthe contains around 28-30. So, like I said it's not hallucinagenic, but the affinity of thujone is on the level of LSD (as far as amount required to achieve some desired effect though their effects and effective targets differ greatly). So, imagine the difference between taking one hit of acid versus three hits of acid (assuming you're relatively new to it).

Absinthe is not legal in the US. Anyone who buys "Absinthe" in the US is a moron. It's no different than normal liquor in the US because it is normal liquor in the US. You people are retarded. The psychoactive chemicals are not present in the US legalized "absinthe." That's why it's legal. They call it absinthe to get morons like you to buy it.

There is no cheese that I would not eat, few that I have not eaten, and none that is so stinky that I would not spread it on anything suitable and chow.

a nice wheel a Gouda smoked slow next to the BBQ, and eaten while waiting for the carne.....mmmmmmmmmmmmm!

Welsh Rarebit:
Ingredients

* 25g Butter
* 150ml Welsh ale-(use milk, if you don't want to have trippy dreams)
* 175g mature Welsh farmhouse Cheese (you can replace this with the sharpest cheddar you prefer-(NO SUBSTITUTES FOR SHARPNESS!)-meaning no poncy chesse you happen to have lying about
* 25g Flour
* 1/2 tsp prepared mild Mustard (Coleman's is best)
* 2 egg yolks
* 4 slices bread

Method

1. Place the butter, milk or ale and cheese in a saucepan and heat gently until melted and smooth in consistency.

2. Stir in the flour, and bring the mixture to the boil, stirring constantly.

3. Remove from the heat and add the mustard and seasoning. Leave to cool for 5 minutes, then whisk in the eggs.

4. Toast the bread on one side, turn over and divide the rarebit mixture between the slices.

5. Place under a hot grill and cook until bubbling and golden.
Welsh rarebit is traditionally served on toast, sometimes with a poached egg on top. Many chefs have taken to using the rarebit mixture for more adventurous dishes such as a topping for fillet of Welsh beef, or cod. It's ideal as a vegetarian dish and is exceptionally good poured over roasted vegetables, then baked in the oven until golden.
You can add various flavourings to the rarebit base such as herbs, fresh chilli, garlic, cooked leeks, chopped ham

Perfectionist's note: Welsh Rarebit is a stand-alone affair-a good sourdough is best-Her starter's activity, together with the beer's yeast and other constituent's, the actives in the cheese, the mustard, have produced repeatable mildly psychoactive, nocturnal effects when eaten on an empty stomach, just prior to bed.-choggie hasn't made this in a number of years-djsunkid is about to, and tell us all about his whacky night-moves......

Hmm. Obviously i'm the only one here that never experimented with drugs at all, be it psychoactive warp blablah or whatever, except of alcohol. Just never felt the need to do so.

Some people will take anything psychoactive, regardless of whether it's psychoactive in a positive or negative way. I suppose some people like it- affects everyone differently, never understood that myself. If you're going to do drugs (and really, you shouldn't) there are much better drugs to do.

In my experience, it just makes everything seem 'slanted.' Given the choice between slanted and pulsating, undulating waves of joy through a universe that seems to sway like kelp on a warm, underwater current, I'd take the latter.

Better yet though, learn to like the universe the way it is. It's pretty amazing right out of the box. Sure, it's legal, but since when did drug-users give a damn about legalities?

meh... doesn't last nearly long enough to make it worth it, I prefer a little staying power in my psychoactives.

oh it would be a real trip that's for sure....ain't gonna happen, and if it does, look to the roaches to scramble to fix what America thinks they want-a race to create new problems and provide the solutions...Plan C3
hey and feddy, while marijuana is not as you say in the sense of many other substances, addictive, staying in the circuit as a way of life, with daily use, always stimulating those receptors that gives one the familiar analgesic, psychoactive, and physiological pancreatic effects, it can become a debilitating problem for some-the first few steps are the hardest.....bong-boy!

I can think of a simple formula for problems with chronic pot use:

Bong-hits >= fixed budget + availability of a nutritious repast + munchies satisfied with fats, sugars, and sodium =possible need for radical and expensive surgeries

other scenarios in enlightened society include drug tests at work, relationships damaged or not reaching their fullest potential, and cotton mouth.

You are likely to be eaten by a grue.
If this predicament seems particularly cruel,
consider whose fault it could be:
not a torch or a match in your inventory.

It got narrated at you in the second person.
Every time you booted up, it seemed you got another version
of your life told to you by a status line blinking,
the impossible people you could be without thinking
yourself insane of personality problems,
with a mop on a drop ship or trying to stab a goblin.
That don’t play in public life. You get arrested,
psychoactive medication daily in your big intestine
and attesting that the voices in your head
said the dwarf shot first, embedded arrow then you bled.
But doctors with needles posit repeatedly
that you knocked down that midget in the park unneededly.
This has seeded the idea that you should
never venture from the house, never get misunderstood
by the non-player characters inhabiting Earth,
none of whom are too concerned about Nord & Bert,
not one of whom ever aimed a fish around the room,
trying to get it in the ear canal because doom
beset the last planet they were on, or near
the verge of a set of poetics they wouldn’t hear.
Never peered at the clues with invisible ink.
No SM goddesses ever gave them pause to think.
Never piloted six robots, each distinct.
Don’t matter how many 2-liters they drink,
they’re not gonna follow what you’re saying at all.
They impugn and appall in the scope of their gall,
as you hide in your room in disgust with the lights turned out.
Turn ‘em on in a turn. Leave ‘em off for now.

You read a pamphlet from a mailbox that urges low cunning,
offers cursor and prompt: type >run and you’re running,
and parses what you tell it, pronouns intact,
abbreviations if you need ‘em (better keep it gramat.).
Better punctuate your sentences and never redact
the name of anything ambiguous. You’re about to get asked,
do you mean the red one, the round one, the crooked, or the blue?
Better keep that in your pocket, don’t know yet what it could do.
Could be the spray for the grue; you’re gonna need it if it is —
a situation that reloads, restarts, or quits.
Wonder how many points out of how many points
you’ve got to get before you’re done. Endeavor then to rejoice,
when you wish more ardently, identities shed,
for continuance, the rhyme forever voyaging. Fled
from all lights and colors, from all smells and sound:
just the lyric on the monochrome display and you’re proud
to make another verse appear by solving riddles.
If you didn’t have to sleep, you know you’d never seek acquittal.
You’d be ever in the middle and the midst of quest.
If it weren’t for >don the gown. you’d never get dressed.
In your underwear typing, just like Front,
keyboard attached up to my fingers — wrists bear the brunt —
as I seek to do stunts simply through their descriptions.
I think I went once to some sands that were Egyptian.
And I retain plane tickets, snapshots, receipts,
yet I stand unconvinced that this has happened to me.
I wouldn’t want to misremember or get confused.
Recall of crawling towards a pyramid appearing over dunes.
Recall of entering the thing and descending stairs.
Does it descend from there, adventure to nightmare?
Did I battle a snake? Was the treasure intact?
Or did the TRS-80 in my brain get hacked?
Thanks, Grampa, for buying it. Now my life’s ruined.
Twenty-two years later, head’s infested: got the grue in.
PLUGHing, XYZZYfying, trying to escape,
but I can’t ‘cause I’m up and around and awake.

"Even small air conditioners can consume thousands of watts per hour"

The narrator obviously has no clue about physics. One watt is one joule (unit of energy) per second. Total energy consumption would be measured in joules; the rate of energy consumption would be measured in watts; the rate of change of the rate of energy consumption would be measured in watts per (time).

Lithium bromide is no safer than other coolants used in air conditioners. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium_bromide
Bromide is harmful because it displaces Iodine and interferes with the production of thyroid hormone (among many other ways it can poison you). Lithium is used as a psychoactive drug. Lithium was used as a food additive in the USA until 1948 when manufacturers were forced to stop adding it to food. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium_pharmacology#Lithium_and_culture

The device in the video is far too bulky to be adopted in an urban area and provides the same net impact on the heat of the surrounding area as running an ordinary AC from solar panels.

Psilocybe had much to do with our evolution as well......plants and their psychoactive chemicals....

gives psychoactives a bad name, is definitely a bad trip

Just checked the bottom of the page on the "More Posts By Pipp" and found this:

http://www.videosift.com/video/EBN-Psychoactive-Drugs

coincidence?

thanks for the audio pyrex. That's some LOL stuff

Here is some info on the toxicity of THC:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetrahydrocannabinol#Toxicity
According to the Merck Index, 12th edition, THC has a LD50 value of 1270 mg/kg (male rats) and 730 mg/kg (female rats) administered orally dissolved in sesame oil.[2]

If this were scaled up to an adult human, the LD50 would be between approximately 50 and 86 g for a 68 kg (150 lb) female or male person respectively. This would be equivalent to 1-1.8 kg of cannabis with a 5% THC content (roughly average) taken orally.

http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/library/mj_overdose.htm
In summary, enormous doses of Delta 9 THC, All THC and concentrated marihuana extract ingested by mouth were unable to produce death or organ pathology in large mammals but did produce fatalities in smaller rodents due to profound central nervous system depression.

The non-fatal consumption of 3000 mg/kg A THC by the dog and monkey would be comparable to a 154-pound human eating approximately 46 pounds (21 kilograms) of 1%-marihuana or 10 pounds of 5% hashish at one time. In addition, 92 mg/kg THC intravenously produced no fatalities in monkeys. These doses would be comparable to a 154-pound human smoking at one time almost three pounds (1.28 kg) of 1%-marihuana or 250,000 times the usual smoked dose and over a million times the minimal effective dose assuming 50% destruction of the THC by smoking.

Thus, evidence from animal studies and human case reports appears to indicate that the ratio of lethal dose to effective dose is quite large. This ratio is much more favorable than that of many other common psychoactive agents including alcohol and barbiturates (Phillips et al. 1971, Brill et al. 1970).

He felt like he was dying to the point of being convinced it was true, there's a difference. It's a common side-effect for first time users of psychoactive drugs to irrationally panic. Knowing the drug may be harmless can have little effect on how the symptoms manifest themselves to each user...

yes, this is terrible. Recreational drug use is never good for a child.

But in response to the thread, kids today are prescribed a shit-ton of psychoactive drugs in their formative years (choggie). Ever hear of adderall, prozac, ritalin, wellbutrin... not excusing the abuses, but just noting that the carnal shock some experience watching this clip should be contextualized some.

.... and, as a bonus note, nicotine IS a psychoactive drug. Why the hell do you think people smoke tobacco in the first place? So bringing up second hand smoke is not an outrageous thing to do.