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Absinthe was banned in the US in 1912, not because of Prohibition, but due to concerns about its potential psychoactive effects, particularly the presence of thujone, a chemical found in grand wormwood. While it was believed to cause hallucinations and other dangerous effects, these claims were largely unfounded and fueled by misinformation and the Temperance movement. Some conjecture I think.

While it was believed to cause hallucinations and other dangerous effects, these claims were largely unfounded and fueled by misinformation and the Temperance movement.

I can attest from personal experience that the Metropolol my cardiologist makes me take causes vivid audio and visual hallucinations and bizarre dreams.

https://jmedicalcasereports.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1752-1947-6-65

Wormwood is referred eight times in the KJV Bible, seven in the OT, and once in the Revelation 8:10-11, as follows:

"And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters; And the name of the star is called Wormwood: and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter."

Loojing to the original New Testament Greek Koine text, one sees that the word translated "wormwood" is:

Strong's Number G894
ἄψινθος
apsinthos
ap'-sin-thos 9pronunciation0
Strong's Definition:
Of uncertain derivation; wormwood (as a type of bitterness, that is, [figuratively] calamity): - wormwood./blockquote> zthusingesting fro, some sense of the first century Greek, one infers that the substance causes some form of mental derangement. I be;ieve in the Bible, especially as Revelation refers to some bad things happeningto people. And this would not be an ethanol tincture since distllation of it had not yet been invented. (Even so, ethanol itself is a toxin, eh?)