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Wormwood

Acute: Moderate riskDependency: Moderate risk

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Routes
Oral / Smoked
Form
Shredded Herb
Shulgin rating
+/+

Experience

Primary effects

  • A mental stimulant providing a peaceful, relaxing, and lightly anaesthetic feeling; may alleviate anxiety and clarify vision.
  • Causes mild, hazy disorientation and a dreamlike/surreal 'dollhouse effect', where things appear as idealized copies.
  • Can induce mental lucidity, mild euphoria, and general relaxation.

Peak character

  • The effects are generally described as minor, mild, and sometimes 'boring', not strong or intrusive.

Negatives / side effects

  • Long and intensive use of wormwood can be poisonous and lead to addiction.
  • May result in stiffness, body aches (especially lower back), and dry mouth after use.

Aftereffects / comedown

  • Can lead to vivid, multiple, and recallable dreams, often lucid, though not always pleasant or controllable.
  • Recollections of the night after use may be odd and lacking, suggesting a pervasive influence.

Reagent testing

Adulterant detection: Artemisia absinthium — thujone content. No standard colorimetric test applicable.

Thujone is not detected by standard drug reagents. Low adulteration risk for dried herb.

Source

Reference fields and narrative for Wormwood extracted from The Drug Users Bible by Dominic Milton Trott (MxZero Publishing, 2022).

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