the ingredients and instructions to make "Absinthe"
 which is a alcholic hallucinogin 
that is illegal
in the U.S. but legal
in most of the other world.

"Absinthe" was the glowing green liquid that Trent had in the music
video
for "The Perfect Drug". 
 

There are 2 kinds of absinthe, 
one is just an alcoholic drink, but you
can't get it in the united states,
and ther other is an alcoholic drink with
a hallucinogen.
the one with the hallucinogen.
,the hallucinogenic one 
can't be made anymore.
the original root
that was used to distill the
liquor is extinct. 
the one they use now is called wormwood,
btw: this is the one that is just
alcoholic, not hallucinogenic.

1 cup, vodka
1 teaspoon, crumbled wormwood
2 tablespoons,
 chopped peppermint leaves
1/3 to 1/2 cup, sugar syrup
1 piece, lemon peel, 3/4" x 2"

Procedure:

Steep wormwood in vodka for 48 hours.
Strain out and add peppermint leaves and lemon peel.
Steep for 8 days, strain and sweeten.

Absinthe is an alcoholic liquer made by the fermentation,
of an herb called wormwood
(artemisia absinthium): 
this herb is poisonous and the
resulting drink is, more or less,
poisonous as well. 
Usual alcohol content for absinthe 
(called "absynthe")
in America before it was
banned or "la fee verte" in France, 
where it was most popular) is
somewhere along the lines of 70
to 90 percent per volume. 
Some speculate that one of wormwood's active
constituents - thujone,
chemically similar to THC (the stuff in marijuana) - lends to the
reported hallucinogenic properties
of the resulting drink, although this substance is only present in trace
amounts to less than one
percent of the resulting fluid.

Absinthe was a very commonplace drink among artists and noblemen during
the time of Van
Gogh (who is said to have developed "absinthism", a rare form of
alcoholism from its
 overconsumption). Its popularity in France was such that men would
gather in cafes and such for
what was called "L'heure verte" (the Green Hour), when everyone would
indulge in the ritual.
This involved the use of special absinthe spoons suspended above the
elaborate glasses. One one
 place a sugar cube within the spoon and pour water into the fluid. This
would precipitate the
terpenes dissolved in the solution to emerge, changing the drink from
crisp emerald green to a
cloudy, milky white. (This is what Trent is doing in the Perfect Drug
video). The drink is
fantastically bitter (hence the ritual), but it is said to promote
creativity and all the leading artists of
the time drank the stuff. Its effects last about a week after the
initial intoxication which is fast
acting and long lasting.

The "absinthe substitutes" which you'll find online, involving mixing
vodka, wine, alcohol-of-choice
and wormwood essences do not work, and can be poisonous. The only
"working thing" is the real
thing, which cannot be found very easily anymore. It is legal and
produced in Spain, but I am not
sure if it is the *real* thing or one of the lookalikes. Pernod is a
common place Absinthe lookalike,
which is the same drink scrap the wormwood, scrap the "magickal"
effects.

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