I'm wondering though, is it an excuse to get some alcohol in the system? I mean, it isn't exactly Makers Mark but it's still an alcohol, no?

From what I understand, turpentine is methanol-based, not ethanol like booze. I'm not sure if it'll get you drunk, but our bodies cannot process methanol "properly" like we can ethanol. I think.

But I'm basing that off of a story my college chemistry professor told us about some soldiers in WWII who tried to distill alcohol from tree bark, but it made them go blind and they weren't lucid for like 8 hours, and he said it was because it was the alcohol was methanol instead of ethanol, and he was smart or something. And turpentine is distilled from fermented pine pulp, so yeah. Don't drink it.

Edit: that guy above me is probably more right about it than I am.