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The Grant's absinth available in the u.k. is 70%, although a frenchman on BBC's "Watchdog" claims that proper absinth is only about 45%

HALLUCINOGENIC HALLUCINOGENIC HALLUCINOGENIC, now write it out one thousand times, all of you, I spelled it correctly in the original article.

a tequila cocktail to mess with your mind, body, and quite possibly soul!
-write note with mother, or some other caring persons phone number on it
-pin to chest
-take one pint glass...
-fill half way with snakebite and black( half lager, half cider, dash of blackcurrent essence)
-fill to nearly brim with lager and lime (limeade and lager)
take one shot glass, add two shots of tequila
-hold shot glass over pint glass
-drop
-down drink as fast as you can
-feel very ill, but oddly brave
-realise you can't walk
-realise you cant speak
-realise you can't see
-point wildly at note and colapse
-here endeth the cocktail

I can't help feeling that the current obsession with absynth is because of it's hillucnigenic properties (OK i know I spelt that wrong)

There have been perfectly good narcotics which have been available for years to do this (and the cost a lot less than £40)

Why not look in fields for magic mushrooms? they're a hillucnigenic, they're free, and they're legal for personal consumption

From what I've read, the active ingredient in Absinthe is convulsant poison named Thujone, with somewhat similar chemical properties to marijuana, both interacting with a common chemical receptor in the central nervous system. There is an excellent book out on the subject, "Absinthe, History in a Bottle by Barnaby Conrad III, 1988, Chronicle Books, San Francisco, CA....ISBN: 0-87701-486-8...A curious note: wormwood in Russian is Chernobyl.

Everyone: Abisinth is availble to buy in a Bar in Great Western Road, Glasgow, called Oblomovs. It is 95% vol.

What you need is a good glug of Jamaican Appleton 'Whites' - an overproof tipple designed to make you go blind in the shortest time possible. This is usually added to innocent looking, sounding and tasting cocktails, which convince you everything's gonna be just allllllright, until you're looking at the stars and can't remember your name.

BTW I believe Tequila is only hallucinogenic if supplied with Worm resting peacefully at the bottom of the jar, as found over the border in Mexico. The Worm is found in the Peyote cactus, and is laced with Mescalin, a complete conscience-expander of a natural substance if there ever was one!

This particular supply of Tequila is illegal, back over the border, as it contains a Class A (in UK) drug.

Popular alcoholic legend also has it that it was whilst he was in the midst of a particularly vicious Absinthe trip that Vincent Van Gogh thought it'd be nice to cut his ear off and give it to his girlfriend as a token of his love...
Judging by the state of some of the people I saw around after a recent "Absinthe Party", it also gives one an insane desire to stage swordfights using wooden bromhandles as the weapon of choice, whilst wearing household plants upon the head...

Bicardi 151 is the best known 151 Rum, but not the best. A true Virgin Islands bottle of 151 made locally will know your boots off
For those who asked 151 is as the name says 151 proof Rum, ie. 75.5 percent alcohol. The only thing I know that uis stronger
is Everclear, but that is pure grain alcohol, ie. 95% or 198 proof.

I was in the Pub Oblomov last night where they sell Absinth. The pub buys it for £40 a bottle from trade suppliers and then sells it a £4 a shot. They get 28 shots from a bottle. They will sell you a bottle for £112. If you break one, they get angry.

The strongest drink I've seen is in my Granfathers drinks cabenet. Its called spiritus and it designed for mixing (probably with lots of water) it 94% alcohol and I dont even want to conider the hangover I could get from that.

it's probably 70% mate not 95% assuming it's Hills absinth which tastes pretty awful as
well. There is another brand sold in the UK (which comes from the Czech republic like
the Hills stuff) called Sebor. It's weeker being only about 55% (110 overproof?) but it's
supposed to have more of the luvly Thujone hallcinogenic stuff in it. What I'm most
pissed off with about the stuff is that it doesn't go cloudy like I thought it was supposed
to when you put water in.

sure ill do as long as I dont pay for it. (tim likes the fish)

I'm just surprised my brother's name wasn't metioned.

Your bother must have been the rent boy in the leather hot pants, dishing out free hand jobs to anyone that could touch their nose with his tounge!!!

Whoa! That's a bit harsh isn't it? I mean, I don't know who his brother is, nor do I care, but jeez! Have you been drinking any of the above?

let's see... homebrewing absinthe would be rather difficult. you'd need to distill the wormwood, and the exact mixture of herbs has been a well-kept secret by the original makers, though there have been many variations. the hallucinogenic properties are from the wormwood (which is quite an interesting herb, and I didn't know that about it's russian translation...) and the classic way I've always heard of drinking it is to pour an amount of absinthe in a glass, put the sugar in slotted spoon (you can find these at tea and specialty coffee shops) and pour the measure of water through the spoon. The liquor starts a clear light green, and as the sugar/water mixture pours in it turns a cloudy chartreuse green. a very dramatic change.

there are a number of "fake" absinthes being marketed with no wormwood, or barely any. There's one in the states called Herbsaint that's marketed as "from the old Absinthe House in New Orleans" and people accept it as the original. I could be wrong, but I've only heard of the "real" stuff being available in Spain, and pretty much illegal everywhere else. just my 2 cents.

Stick Absinth man.
HIT THE POT!!!!!!!!!
It's better
It's cheaper
It's quicker
It only sends you sort of insane.
and it is only slightly illegal esspecially if you dont get caught.

I've drank tequila for years and the only brand that seems to have any mind altering qualities is Mezcal and that has a worm in it.EAT THE WORM!!!!!

How about add a lump of plutonium.
Then you could call it an atom bomb.
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