{"id":47,"date":"2007-12-28T13:28:40","date_gmt":"2007-12-28T20:28:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.talesfromthe.net\/jon\/?p=47"},"modified":"2007-12-28T13:28:40","modified_gmt":"2007-12-28T20:28:40","slug":"the-green-fairy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/2007\/12\/28\/the-green-fairy\/","title":{"rendered":"The green fairy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.reason.com\/UserFiles\/Image\/jsullum\/absinthe_poster.jpg\" align=\"left\" height=\"200\" hspace=\"5\" width=\"144\" \/>With a cover story in by Paul Clarke in Imbibe magazine (not available online, alas) following Jacob Sullum&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reason.com\/blog\/show\/123442.html\">The Green Fairy gets a Green Card<\/a> in reason online last month, it&#8217;s absinthe-mania!  The legal issues are complex and relate to the levels of thujone, the ingredient that may or may not be psychoactive.<\/p>\n<p>To me drinking absinthe feels roughly like being hit on the side of a head with a sledgehammer (60% alcohol content will do that to you) and a steel wire brush scouring my brain from the inside.  I remember saying &#8220;wow, I can really see why the whole fin-de-siecle crowd went nuts drinking this&#8221;.   There is a very distinctive warm and langourous feel along with it which is quite interesting; hard to know how much is the set and setting &#8212; morphogenic fields in the cultural sense.   People have told me that drinking three or four sometimes leads to hallucinations, but as a notorious lightweight I suspect I&#8217;d be passed out from the alcohol long before that, so I&#8217;ll have to take their word for it.<\/p>\n<p>Still, even though it&#8217;s not my drug of choice, it&#8217;s got lots of adherents, and a rich tradition; so it&#8217;s great to see this semi-legalization.  Kudos to the Ted Breaux for the historical and chemical research, and to Swiss distillery Kubler which supported the legal battle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With a cover story in by Paul Clarke in Imbibe magazine (not available online, alas) following Jacob Sullum&#8217;s The Green Fairy gets a Green Card in reason online last month, it&#8217;s absinthe-mania! The legal issues are complex and relate to the levels of thujone, the ingredient that may or may not be psychoactive. To me [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-political"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}