Thread: Absinthe in France: Legalising the 'green fairy'
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Old 04-05-2011, 16:26   #3
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Re: Absinthe in France: Legalising the 'green fairy'
The original Absinthe was made with the 'wormwood' herb. This left the resulting spirit with a slighty hallucinatory effect due to small quantities of a by-product chemical called thujone.

So yes, I guess it was pretty dangerous stuff, being in the region of 100-proof spirit as well.
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