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arago
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absinthe drinkers: can this be taken anywhere?
#5554981 - 04/25/06 01:48 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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http://ecam.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/2/1/69#FIG2
Is a fellow going to find trouble making tea from the leaf tips of arborvitae?
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giz
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Re: absinthe drinkers: can this be taken anywhere? [Re: arago]
#5555285 - 04/25/06 03:28 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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no idea be careful with consuming too much tuhjone tho, but thank for that link, it was an intresting read.
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Mitchnast
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Re: absinthe drinkers: can this be taken anywhere? [Re: giz]
#5555831 - 04/25/06 06:37 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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thujone is bad stuff, and pretty much usless recreationally.
you know sagebrush? the stuff that grows all over the western states?
thats a type of wormwood.
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arago
Mr. Wind Up Bird


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Re: absinthe drinkers: can this be taken anywhere? [Re: Mitchnast]
#5556022 - 04/25/06 07:22 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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Ahh. Sagebrush. Now there's a plant I've wandered amongst. Thanks for the tip. I'll try to peel the bark off a different plant.
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Pingasa
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Re: absinthe drinkers: can this be taken anywhere? [Re: arago]
#5557086 - 04/26/06 12:04 AM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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If you want the real active ingredient in absinth, forget about thujone. That stuff does nothing. Look up calamus root.
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makaveli8x8
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Re: absinthe drinkers: can this be taken anywhere? [Re: Pingasa]
#5557183 - 04/26/06 12:29 AM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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hey wait a min now, who says true wormwood is bad? or the thujone thats in it?
ive read about the drink that was made and ive heard about the storys saying it was wormwood. But i also heard it was many many other things that could have caused it.
the truth is that they were quick to shoot the gone and blame someone and it happened to be this plant wormwood..and since then nobody has prob bothered to do any research at all with it.
ive read on erowid about people makeing extracts of wormwood and smoking it and getting a buzz of it so...its not worthless.
and i think i heard that saliva d. has something like 90% of thujone in it. i could be wrong about that thow im just going off memory on everything i typed here.
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giz
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Re: absinthe drinkers: can this be taken anywhere? [Re: makaveli8x8]
#5557510 - 04/26/06 03:20 AM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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i just made a post in ODD about absinthe and thujone
there is little thujone in absinthe, less than 10mg per litre, you get dead of alcohol poisoning long before you get anything from the thujone
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arago
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Re: absinthe drinkers: can this be taken anywhere? [Re: giz]
#5566411 - 04/28/06 09:38 AM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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What's ODD? By the way I did some experimenting last night. It usually takes me a six-pack to get my grass mown (half an acre). I thought I'd sample some of the tips of my arborvitae. Then, further along, I noticed that the tips of white cedar just about exactly resembled the arborvitae, so I tried them too. Well, hell, why stop there? I tried some Port Orford Cedar; they were slightly different, but tasted the same. I probably bit off a quarter-inch of each. I spit the first two out after awhile, but swallowed the third. I definitely got an effect; it pretty much transformed the beer buzz. It's been a long time since I've altered my consciousness - this was subtle, but unmistakable.
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