It is finally legal in the United States for the first time in 100 years (for those 21 and up)
I'm not a big drinker, but I was very curious to see what the hulaballoo was all about.

EWWWWW! I tried Lucid Absinthe, the only true absinthe sold in the U.S. It's and alcoholic liquor with an added chemical called thujone which has psychoactive properties. We diluted it according to the instructions, saw the greenish smoke from it and thought it smelled okay, but when me, my hubby and our friend tried it we all nearly threw up. It was so gross. It tastes of strong licorice and like you are drinking your lawn too. I couldn't even drink a shots worth, heavily diluted with water, ice, and sugar.

Now to the feeling. I didn't get much down but I felt like I was floating and for a few minutes music sounded really cool! I got very tired afterward, but I think that was just the alcohol. It is supposed to give you hallucinations in large quantities so I was careful in the amount i was going to drink. What sold me was on the bottle it said it invoked creativity....Fortunately it tasted so bad my decision was made for me.

I might try another flavor in the future, but with only one true one available in the u.s. i won't be drinking Lucid again. And the bottle was $66!! It will last forever. I was thinking about returning it, lol.

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Whoa, that's crazy.
Did you feel more creative? haha

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Not really more creative. It was a weird kind of high, but like i said i couldn't drink much of it. The music was cool and I have a feeling if i'd had more i'd have wanted to dance.

The bottle said it was popular fashion people in the 1800's though.

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I have wanted to try it for a long time. My understanding is you can't find really "authentic" absinthe in the U.S. anymore. I thought none of them could contain thujone anymore and that they are distilled differently than they originally were.

EDIT: None of the available brands in the U.S. can contain a level of thujone high enough to be detected.

From what I have read it's best just to buy it from another country and have it shipped. The quality is better.

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Yeah, I read that somewhere too. I just know that lucid is the only one distilled in grande wormwood.
There was a definite difference though in the feeling i got from it. It was not a regular drunk or buzzed feeling. My friend was trying to be brave a took a straight shot. He only got half of it down, but afterwards he was kind of like a zombie. It didn't last long. We all got a good laugh from it's bad taste though.
IDK, but something in it was different from regular liquors.
I will look into buying from another country. Is it illegal to have it shipped over though? I don't want to get in trouble but i'd love to try a different "real" absinthe.

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I would like to know if it is illegal to have it shipped too... if not, I would totally get some!

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it is illegal to have absinthe shipped to the states.

thujone has similar effects on the brain as drugs like lsd and pcp, which is why absinthe was originally outlawed in the united states. the absinthe being sold legally in the states has low enough levels of thujone that there isn't too big a threat (supposedly.)

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some people I knew had some from some other country. I never tried it, but it was a very strange green color looked like Antifreeze. My friend tried it, and said it was disgusting.

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did you get this from spec's or just a regular liquor store? i miss spec's so much...i wish we had them here in ca!

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I love Absinthe!

In college, I hung out with a lot of Psychology Master's students and one of the guys used to get Absinthe from an overseas dealer on the down-low.

We did the flaming sugar cube thing and then would pass the glass around in a big circle...dude...that shit will get you fucked up! You don't need more than 2 or 3 swallows...

Gosh, this brings back so many great memories.

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I think it's overrated.

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It tastes like Dollar Store Nyquil. It gave me a headache. I felt less creative.

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