A Fantastic Experience I am a quite fit young male with a reasonable level of experience in altered states of consciousness and drugs in general. For a long time I had wanted to try Absinthe . I decided to order a bottle online . I ordered a 50cl bottle, which was about £30, and waited for it to arrive.
Absinthe
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Aliases: Green fairy, La fée verte, Green goddess
Summary
Absinthe is a distilled spirit infused with herbs including the thujone-containing Artemisia absinthium. Many describe its effects as significantly different than alcohol alone, but the nature of thujone's effects are much disputed. It was popularized in the late 19th century and associated with the bohemian artistic movements of the time.
Tolerance
Build-up
develops over 1–4 weeks of regular use
Reset
Falls after you stop, at a rate that varies from person to person. If you've been using regularly, cut down gradually with medical help rather than stopping suddenly.
No tolerance chart. Our decay curves for these drugs were estimates, and a curve can make tolerance look longer-lasting than it is, which is the dangerous direction.
How fast tolerance to these drugs fades after a break has not been measured well enough to draw, so don't count on a dose you used to take still being safe: after time off, start with a much smaller amount and don't use alone. Mixing sedatives with each other, with alcohol or with opioids sharply raises the risk of a fatal overdose. If you've been using regularly, don't stop suddenly: withdrawal from benzodiazepines, alcohol or GHB/GBL can cause seizures or delirium, so get medical help to cut down gradually.
Sources: FRANK: benzodiazepines · Alcohol and Drug Foundation: GHB · FDA 2020: benzodiazepine boxed warning · FDA 2019: gabapentinoids and breathing · NHS: alcohol use disorder
Effects
Aggregated from 104 single-substance Erowid experience reports; 21 Erowid reports where another drug was taken too are left out
Each bar shows the share of analyzed reports whose text mentions that effect — a mention is not always a first-hand experience (fear of an effect or something witnessed can count). Mentions saying the effect did not happen are left out; that check reads keywords, so it can miss some. The shaded band on a bar, and the small range after its number, is the 95% interval: where the share could plausibly be with other reports of the same kind. Fewer reports, wider band. Tap or hover any number for details. The second value is the Bluelight extractor's per-effect confidence; a dash means the row is Erowid-derived, which has no confidence measurement.
Effect glossary — · full glossary
Positive Effects 11
22.1% (95% interval 15 to 31 percent)
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18.3% (95% interval 12 to 27 percent)
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17.3% (95% interval 11 to 26 percent)
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15.4% (95% interval 10 to 24 percent)
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13.5% (95% interval 8 to 21 percent)
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13.5% (95% interval 8 to 21 percent)
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12.5% (95% interval 8 to 20 percent)
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5.8% (95% interval 3 to 12 percent)
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4.8% (95% interval 2 to 11 percent)
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2.9% (95% interval 1 to 8 percent)
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Adverse Effects 6
17.3% (95% interval 11 to 26 percent)
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10.6% (95% interval 6 to 18 percent)
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8.7% (95% interval 5 to 16 percent)
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7.7% (95% interval 4 to 14 percent)
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Community Trip Reports
Anecdotal first-person accounts from Reddit, Erowid, Bluelight, and Dose.wiki. Click a source to expand. Reports are harm-reduction context, not medical guidance. Tags summarise each author's own verdict — how reports are classified.
Erowid 8 reports 1 positive 5 neutral 2 cautionary visit
I finally had the opportunity to try absinthe this summer while visiting the Czech republic. The first time was with a 350ml bottle, shared between 3 people, in the city of Prague. (Hill's brand). The stuff was 60% alcohol if I remember correctly, and bitter like chartreuse or jagermeister.
I had just gotten back from Spain with a bottle of Absinthe that my friend, Michael had urged me to buy. It seemed fine and he told me that we would have immense amounts of fun. Well, not the case at all. My cousin decided that we should take a couple of shots before Michael arrived.
My journey into the effects of thujone containing alcoholic beverages began after reading an article from the Journal of Studies on Alcohol (Dettling, 2004). The article suggested that a dose of 0.28mg/kg of alpha-thujone in an amount of alcohol to yield a BAC of 0.04 (roughly 2 drinks for a 78kg male like me) produced...
A couple years ago I purchased a bottle of Czech absinthe online, but wasnt too impressed with it, and found out that I had bought the low thujone content one by mistake.
A couple years ago I purchased a bottle of Czech absinthe online, but wasn't too impressed with it, and found out that I had bought the low thujone content one by mistake.
I started experimenting with Thujone a couple of months ago, taken from the common plant Tanacetum Vulgare (Common Tansy.) If you wish to experiment with this, make certain you do not use other varieties of Tansy. There is one in particular that causes liver malfunction and death to farm animals.
A few friends and I decided that we wanted to try and make some of our own absinthe. So we looked up how to desolve thujone(psychoactive chemical in wormwood), and it could be desolved with either ethanol, diethyl ether, or formaldahyde.
Bluelight 3 threads 2 positive 1 neutral visit
Absinthe - A restrospective for those who wish to destroy their brains Personal Information Sex: male Weight: 110 ~ 120 lbs This is not a single trip report but a retrospective of my experience with absinthe.
There were constructions all over Vienna at the time I was there. After getting lost in the work-in-progress but still operational subway station, then getting lost twice on the street for following the wrong arrows, I finally saw... busses! That must be it. I ordered a return ticket to Bratislava. It was around 5pm.
Earlier this year, mid october, a friend of mine received an order of "Absinthe King" brand absinthe, which is based on an old swiss recipe. We didnt use the sugar cubes or anything, we just wanted to try it to find out the true nature of absinthe's mystical history.
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