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The Absinthe Drinker Artist

There is a fundamental fact about drugs: all drugs are poisons and all poisons are drugs. It is not accident that the words “poison” and “potion” come from the same root, or that Greek word pharmakon, which we find rooted in our own words “pharmacy” and “pharmacology”, originally meant both a healing draught an a deadly one. The same fact somehow socially applied to the absinthe drinker artist: “Every artist is an absinthe drinker” the other part it is not true at all “The absinthe drinker is an artist”. So, why is said that “Every artist is an absinthe drinker”? The answer lies in the fact that original absinthe has high amounts of thujone, a substance found in wormwood, and it is said that thujone is a psychoactive substance. This explains why artist like to drink absinthe, it keeps their imagination and creativity at full speed.

The most popular misconception about absinthe is that it is a drug, or at least similar to a drug in effect. This is not true. The hysteria surrounding absinthe in the early 20th century fueled the misconception that absinthe was a powerful intoxicant that caused hallucinations in the drinker and drove these drinkers "mad", in some way “threw them into epileptic fits”. The truth however, is both more interesting and less sensational. Even though the absinthe drinker artist refuses to believe these facts and keeps drinking absinthe for keeping his creativity at the top.

in the broadest sense, a drug or a poison is any chemical that can effect an alteration in the function or structure of living issue. An example: A bullet striking the body at high velocity can unquestionably alter its function but it does it mechanically rather than chemically, and therefore it could not be classified as a drug.

The million times mentioned case of Netherlands born painter Vincent Van Gogh is just simply a myth. First, he was an absinthe drinker artist, this is true, in fact he was a heavy drinker. Second, as any painter he was breathing “paint” most of the time and that means something, paints have chemical components that at least irritate your eyes, this is something you can see at first sight but what about the damage your lungs suffer? This is something you can not see at first sight. Third, Van Gogh was poor, he ate what he had at hand, most of the times he was hungry, he only ate something when his brother gave him some food, and his brother was not looking after little Vincent. It is widely known that a strong and maintained weakness condition has unexpected demonstrations. Fourth, it is said that Van Gogh was a workaholic, he loved painting so much that he used to say that he had no time to waste doing something else than painting.

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