A century of prohibition rested on a myth: the green fairy was never toxic, just dangerously strong.
SCIENCE
July 31, 2026
For nearly a century, absinthe was banned across the Western world as a hallucinogen that drove artists to madness — then chemists tested the old pre-ban bottles and found nothing special at all, no secret in the wormwood, just an unusually strong liquor that
A century of prohibition rested on a myth: the green fairy was never toxic, just dangerously strong.
A century of prohibition rested on a myth: the green fairy was never toxic, just dangerously strong.
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