Yeah, it's true. Part time slanger of booze and smokes and full time dealer to douche bags curious if they'll trip after purchase.

Also available from http://www.integrityspirits.com/trillium-absinthe.html

to the sift with this

I guess the classics by Hemmingway et al were all lying about it then? I call BS. I think this guy is trying to save the rapidly falling market that occurred when people realized that he's making the Shirley Temple version of the stuff.

I actually stopped drinking it once I found it didn't have hallucinogenic properties which was pretty much the morning after. But now that it's legal in the States I might get a set up so that I can try it as it's supposed to be tried: chilled and poured over sugar cubes into a glass.

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.

It must be a very pussy version of the stuff because the one time I drank it with a friend--he had gotten his when he was overseas in the military--that stuff made my throat bleed and made the walls dance with patterns, haha.

I don't know what kind of absinthe that guy in the video is selling..

Absinthe is legal now. I can buy it here in Massachusetts. Find a locally owned reputable liquor store and speak with the owner about its legality and availability in your area. Don't ask some cashier.. they may not know, or may give the wrong information.

Heck, call your local district attorney's office and ask. Your local police station may even be able to answer that question.

The reason it took so long to legalize? The US liquor manufacturers probably don't want any more competition from the foreign market than they already have. Drug companies do the same thing with their products. They charge us an arm and a leg for meds, when the same or similar stuff is much CHEAPER across the border.

Free market indeed.

"Absinthe is legal now. I can buy it here in Massachusetts. "

Hey retard can you do some research about US Absinthe and real Absinthe and stop sounding like a moron?
US legalized Absinthe is not the same Absinthe you'd buy in Greece. It does not have the same i n g r e d i e n t s. I dunno how else to say that so you'll have to try and look it up yourself idiot.

Ironically i first tried absinthe (american) just last week for the first time. I must say it was a shitty drink, not all the sugar in the world could of covered up its bitterness. Later a friend of mine brought a bottle he claimed he bought in spain so we tried it. Must say i really felt no difference. The taste wasnt as bad but really was no different than any other type of alcohol. Though i know absinthe enthusiasts will defend it to the death like some religion but oh well that was my experience with 2 types.

it is my understanding that the absinthe banned by the U.S. contains thujone levels higher than 9ppm and that the absinthe currently available has levels lower than this. Both are made with wormwood, though the rest of the botanical ingredients may vary by distiller. thujone may cause hallucinations, though it seems tough to count out the high proof of the liquor. most people are not accustomed to drinking spirits that are 120 proof or more...that alone might make one hallucinate.
i'm glad this video debunks the lighting sugar on fire myth. i believe that this was started by czech distillers to mask the bitterness of their wares.

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).

Ah, living this side of the Pond does have it's advantages {strokes bottle of Hills}

iloseatlife: You don't know what you're talking about.

Absinthe has been investigated thoroughly and the conclusion is that its "unusual effects" are simply due to its extraordinarily high alcohol content. Hallucinations by regular absinthe drinkers were due to delirium tremens. That's why the stuff is legal now. It is just the subject of ridiculous mythology.

Ioseatlife, and all you other recently active p's with mouths bigger than your brains.....you are quite uninformed and stupid-sounding......Why don't you emos get a room.....hey loseratlife, I have mushrooms if you need a dose of the real....nah...you need a beer or something-

Make the stuff according to instinct and knowledge collected, add a cup of shut the fuckup and drink, and a pinch of pre-conceived notions of what it means to "trip", perhaps you'll see a horsefly, or a trouser-fly......go ride an elephant....

Here's a great article from an actual scientific study on pre-ban, ban-era, and post ban absinthe: http://pubs.acs.org/cen/email/html/cen_86_i18_8618sci2.html

I'm beginning to wonder if iloseatlife is actually a sockpuppet created to mock loser-style posts. His user name is just too appropriate.

All the mystery behind absinthe can be relegated down to one factor: after an insect infestation destroyed the French wine crops back in the late 1800's, absinthe became the popular drink. So popular in fact, that it threatened the French wine industry and was almost named the official drink of France. After the vineyards recovered, they had to get rid of absinthe as a competitor. The solution? Demonize it. Pretty soon, you had stories of hallucinations, murderous rampages (example), etc. They were obviously successful.

And btw, the reported "hallucinatory" effects of absinthe can also be attributed to various distilleries not preparing absinthe correctly, or replacing certain ingredients with other, more dangerous chemicals. A fairly common practice considering there was no governmental regulation and how many litres of the stuff was being consumed back in the day. Thujone itself is not a hallucinogen; if so, everybody would be trippin' balls every Thanksgiving as common cooking sage as an incredible amount of thujone in it; much more so than a foreign, "real" bottle of absinthe.

So, iloseatlife, lose the attitude. It's not welcome and not appreciated, as clearly evidenced by the number of downvotes its received.

Japanese absynthe. Burns all the way down.

so does antifreeze...

There is a difference in what is imported to the US, and what is sold in the Euros. What is gotten here in the US has restrictions put on its Proofing.

I have had absinthe, before and it is very good, but I have never had any Euro absinthe.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcoholic_proof#United_States_of_America

There are certian proofs that cannot be imported. However there are difference in many of these drinks, no single glass is the same.

Patron has different types, Just like Mezcal is not the same a Tequila.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mezcal

So dont even think about telling that you had a worm in your Tequila.

Ok, I'll pipe in with my own actual experiences drinking Absinthe...

I live in the US, but have had Czech, Spanish, and French Absinthe (quite a lot of the Spanish and French stuff). A friend brought the Czech bottle of Hills back from a trip, and I found a supplier that I could get bottles shipped from Europe for the Spanish and French brands (despite the illegality of it at the time, since the last time I imported any was over 5 years ago). I have also had friends try to brew homemade Absinthe with a ton of Wormwood.

The Czech Hills brand is FOUL. It is cheap, crappy absinthe. The French and Spanish brands were MUCH better. The home made stuff was worse than the Hills - MUCH worse. And there is a lot of variation of flavor between brands, so I highly recommend trying different labels.

Now, as far as effect? I got drunk. No hallucinations, no other effects, just DRUNK. Many of my friends would claim to feel a host of effects, often similar to a light pot buzz, but in my opinion they WANTED to feel something and so they did. But we certainly did get quite drunk quite often drinking this stuff. During this time of my life, I was putting down a fifth of vodka and plenty of beer EVERY weekend, so I had quite a tolerance for alcohol going, but I still gotta say this stuff has a kick, especially if you just start doing shots of it instead of doing the whole water and sugar routine.

But still, it was just getting drunk.

No idea what the state of American absinthe is, since I pretty much walked away from the hard drinking, pub crawling period of my life about 5 years ago.

Anyway, no concrete scientific data here, but at least some first hand accounts from someone who drank quite a bit of it from a number of different labels in a few different countries.