A Public and Open Apology to NCmedia

/subscribed LOL

I'd hit that.

BOW-CHICKA-WOW-OW!!

To the best of my knowledge, he is better behaved now that I have left his presence.

There were some nights where OMG!!!!

He bleeep bleep bleep bleep bleep bleep.

The following week, he bleep bleep bleep bleep bleep bleep.

The next weekend, he was on better behavior, right up until he bleep bleep bleep bleep bleep bleep bleep bleep bleep bleep.

You dern fereners...

What exactly be the translation of LCBO?

Then WHO'S beer bottles are you returning?

-Dani

Absinthe has no hallucinogenic properties.

Thujone, the poisonous compound in Grand Wormwood that makes you drop dead if you eat too much of it and crap your brains out if you eat even a little, is chemically related to THC.

Of course, hydrogen peroxide is chemically related to water, too... but that doesn't mean you should go drink some.

The reality is that there isn't much thujone in absinthe at all. The way absinthe is classically distilled, most of it stays in the wormwood, and there's no wormwood in the bottom of the bottle.

But the justification for banning it in the U.S. was that there was X amount of thujone in the wormwood and it wasn't clear how much of that ended up in the absinthe, but it's a deadly poison related to marijuana so we must do something!

And therefore we banned all liquor containing more than a certain amount of thujone, which you could only normally find in absinthe anyway.

There's only one problem: absinthe never contained that much thujone. So the law didn't change. We just figured out that the law didn't even apply to absinthe in the first place.

Absinthe with a high thujone content is produced by brewing what they call macerated absinthe.

Macerated absinthe is basically cheap vodka with crushed herbs soaked in it. And yes, macerated absinthe can give you hallucinations. So will arsenic. So will strychnine. In fact, just about any deadly neurotoxic agent will give you hallucinations if you take a nonlethal dose of it.

So you can probably guess my position on high-thujone absinthe. Number one, it's not really absinthe. Number two, it's a stupid idea.

The only reason they produce it is because idiots walk around saying it's the thujone content that makes absinthe good, and that absinthe gives you hallucinations.

Proper absinthe turns on the dream centres of your brain while you're awake. It's like lucid dreaming while conscious, but you don't actually hallucinate. It just makes things less-real, but in a way that opens up a lot of imagination and creativity. You may think things are there, but you don't really see them or hear them.

It's similar to paranoia, in the worst instances. I had an experience once where I was convinced horrible deformed children with sharp teeth were crawling around my floor. I couldn't see them... but I was just sure they were there. Absolutely terrifying. And positively delightful, in retrospect, but you need to be a certain kind of person to enjoy such things.

There's a reason a lot of poets and painters loved absinthe. Of course, there's a reason the heaviest users went mad, too.