Party News: Switzerland t lift ban on ABSINTHE !!

[Ecthy]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3136960.stm

Drink. Drive. Discuss.

[Ecthy]

How will it change Swiss party culture.

Will there be Swiss chocolates with absinthe in it?

[Dinner]

To bad they've removed all the drug effects. At least it still has lots of alcohol.

[Ecthy]

Did they do that?

[Felch]

Germany, the UK, and a few others already legalized it. I've got a bottle in my room from Frankfurt called Alandia absinthe. And it is weak as ****. They limit the thujume or whatever to 35 mg per liter.

[Datajack Franit]

What happened to Zylka?

[The Mad Monk]

Check the Institutionland thread.

[Pekka]

I think absinthe is legal here as well, but it's just another bottle of crappy booze they sell here. Waste of money.

[chequita guevara]

It never did have much in the way of drug efects. With the amount of thujone in absinthe, you'd have to drink so much the alcohol would kill you.

You can buy it from overseas in the U.S. It's not illegal to own, only to sell or give to someone else, as it's classified as a poison, not a drug.

[Proteus_MST]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara
It never did have much in the way of drug efects. With the amount of thujone in absinthe, you'd have to drink so much the alcohol would kill you.

You can buy it from overseas in the U.S. It's not illegal to own, only to sell or give to someone else, as it's classified as a poison, not a drug.

The trick (as it also has been used in the End of the 19th Century) is to put some Sugar on a teasponn, pour some Absinth over it, then use a lighter to set the Liquid on Fire, wait till the Flame dies out (and the sugar is partly caramelized) and then stir the Absinth into a glass full of water.

So you get a larger Concentration of Absinth and less Alcohol.
But the Concentration of the Thujon ist still neglectible (as Felch mentioned, the Concetrations allowed are nothing compared to the Concentrations you got at the End of the 19th Century), but you don´t get an Alcohol poisoning (but maybe bad teeth because of the large amount of sugar )

[Dr Strangelove]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara
It never did have much in the way of drug efects. With the amount of thujone in absinthe, you'd have to drink so much the alcohol would kill you.

You can buy it from overseas in the U.S. It's not illegal to own, only to sell or give to someone else, as it's classified as a poison, not a drug.

I don't see how that could be. Early in the 20th century when Absinthe was still legal people were developing dementia from drinking it in their early thirties. Developing dementia before age 35 is almost unheard of amongst straight alcoholics.

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

Unless they drink scrumpy. Arrrrr!!

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by Dr Strangelove
I don't see how that could be. Early in the 20th century when Absinthe was still legal people were developing dementia from drinking it in their early thirties. Developing dementia before age 35 is almost unheard of amongst straight alcoholics.

They were drinking huge quantities of alcohol. By 35 you been drinking it for what, 20 years? After 20 years of hard core alcoholism, I'd be surprised if there weren't instances of dementia.

[Proteus_MST]

Originally posted by Dr Strangelove


I don't see how that could be. Early in the 20th century when Absinthe was still legal people were developing dementia from drinking it in their early thirties. Developing dementia before age 35 is almost unheard of amongst straight alcoholics.

It was, because many of the Distillers used Industry Alcohol to get larger Profit out of the Absinthe.
It was much cheaper than the Alcohol used normally for these Drinks, but it also had its hazardous Sideeffects, like Dementia, becoming blind and the like.
If you were too poor to afford High Quality Absinthe (without Industry Alcohol), you were screwed if you drank too much of it.

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by Proteus_MST
So you get a larger Concentration of Absinth and less Alcohol.

But the amount of thujone wouldn't increase, which is supposedly the psychoactive ingrediant.