Sorry, Absinthe Trippers: Scientists Say You're Just Really Drunk

Absinthe visions

Unfortunately, this is my personal experience as well. Oh well.

The long-cherished idea that absinthe, an anise-flavored alcoholic beverage with a history of use by artists like Van Gogh and Picasso, is or ever was hallucinogenic might have met its death by data today.
German scientists put old bottles of the substance to the test and found that the liquid is 70 percent alcohol (140 proof) and 0 percent hallucination.

"All things considered, nothing besides ethanol was found in the absinthes that was able to explain the syndrome 'absinthism'," the researchers wrote in an open-access paper in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry.

[From Sorry, Absinthe Trippers: Scientists Say You're Just Really Drunk | Wired Science from Wired.com]

Bonus, Wired used my photo to illustrate the article.

update, but then updated the entry to use a different shot :(