If history were different, people today might think that gin makes people tripp balzz not absinthe. The lack of funding at the time caused that prohibition effort to fail. You would have to spike absinthe with a real drug to get any effect because absinthe isn't, and never was, a drug.įunny story, the Temperance Movement tried to make up the exact same insanity lies about gin around a century earlier. You would think with a worldwide population in the hundreds of thousands drinking absinthe every day that someone would've reported it having that effect if it did. There is not one, I repeat not one, example of someone thinking it was psychoactive until the temperance movement made the insanity lies up. Millions of liters of absinthe were produced and drank in France every year before the ban. Same ones who got people smoking banana peels.
You can thank the hippies of the late 60s for that one. It wasn't until long after the bans via "insanity must mean hallucinogen" that people started thinking absinthe would make you trip ballz.
The drink didn’t reach the United States until 1878. Developed in Switzerland in 1792, absinthe hit the market and first took over Europe, but nowhere as much as it did France. It’s usually over 45 percent alcohol, which is about 90 proof.
The hallucinations weren't even a part of the bans, rather they were a pop culture/assumed part of the "insanity" case against absinthe. Absinthe is made of distilled grains and green anise, wormwood oil, fennel, and other herbs.
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