Post #303502 by MrBaliHai on Wed, May 2, 2007 6:01 AM

On 2007-05-02 04:19, captnkirk wrote:
I don't know what thujone has to do with any of this

Absinthe was originally banned in Europe based on the premise that it contained large amounts of thujone, which was claimed to be a dangerous hallucinogen. Modern-day testing shows that was false.