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Originally posted by SigmaChiGuy
You never cease to amaze me. Speaking of Ouzo, I do have a bottle of that here at home as well. I was talking with a co-worker the other day and she mentioned that it is made from a plant that produces hallucinegines. Anyone know if that is true? If so, it will be drank in mediation.
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Nope, she got it confused with abisinthe, which is made from the extract of the wormwood plant. Importation of abisinthe is prohibited by federal law. Ouzo (and its cousin, the Turkish
raki, along with the French Pernod, Italian Sambuca and Spanish anis) is commonly used as a substitute for the forbidden abisinthe. In the US, the closest abisinthe substitute is Herbsaint, which contains no wormwood.
In olden days around the turn of the 20th century, there was Vin Mariani, which was wine mixed with either heroin or cocaine. Pretty potent (and addictive) stuff. The original formulation of Coca Cola included some cocaine, but the stuff we drink today contains very little, if any to trip up a drug test.