Re: Absinthe!
My experience with absinthe...
2 years ago I went to Berlin, Germany. I brought back a bottle and so did my little brother.
Went to my friend's place and we drank the bottle (had the fancy spoon and everything to sift it through sugar cubes) and added a little water to the mix. We probably each had a few drinks and then said fuck it and started taking shots.
No, we didn't have any hallucinations, but we got crazy fucked up off it. We wound up taking apart my buddy's waterbed and removing the wooden base, putting it on his highrise balcony, and painting it over and over all night long.
Eventually my dumb ass decided to drive home. My tweny-minute freeway trip was brutal as all the lights from the oncomming cars were giving tracer effects. It looked like light-blurs streaking across the other side of the highway. Aside from that I didn't hallucinate or anything. The drink itself does taste terrible, like the heaviest black liccorice flavor.