kaleidoscopik

Faculty of 1000 let me know over the weekend that there isn’t enough thujone in vintage absinthe to have any psychotropic effects. Absinthe isn’t any more dangerous than liquor, showing yet again how far U.S. policy on controlled substances is from an empriical basis. From the abstract:

All things considered, nothing besides ethanol was found in the absinthes that was able to explain the syndrome “absinthism.

Fulltext article here.