Absinthe was banned because it took market share from wine.
As a friend used to say, “Absinth makes the heart grow fonder.”
I have a couple friends say this stuff works. I been trying to get some from overseas thru a friend so i can try it. Any freepers have experience with this stuff?
Funny, you can purchase absinthe in Europe, but not in the United States. I wonder what else the writer gets incorrect.
They likely had other substances available then and absinthe was merely one of them.
Go watch the No Reservations Paris episode. Bourdain began to hallucinate badly.
Absinthe was originally the drink of the lower classes because it was a cheap high - you got more bang for your buck. The Paris bohemians took it up for the same reason. Arch-eccentric Alfred Jarry made absinthe his intoxicant of choice, but then graduated to ether which packed an even harder wallop. He died young, bien sur.
If you instead brew the herb in hot water, would that lead to drinkers suffering absinthteaism?
so it was all standard alcohol poisoning? Drink alcohol to enough excess and all kinds of bad things will happen, no matter what beverage conveys it....
I’m with the skeptics when it comes to this article. At least in this country where cocaine was part of coca-cola, and opiates were routinely added to various “patent medicines” (for example I like the portrayal of Laudanum use in the movie Tombstone), pharmacoactive substances were the rule rather than the exception pre Food and Drug Act of 1915 or so. In fact that was one of the main forces behind enacting that law. I would think France would have been just as much the case. Whose to say what ended up in any particular bottle? And as other posters say whose to say how long that stuff hangs around mixed with alcohol.
But furthermore look at the artistic output of the people who used. Those guys were on more than just booze IMHO. No one can convince me otherwise. And the contemperaneous descriptions of the users don’t resemble just alcoholics, and drunkenness as well as drug use was well understood back then.
Trivia - I only recently learned that the common drink Pernod has always been kind the non-absinthe Absinthe and that the company Pernod et Fils were the major Absinthe producers way back when.
Interesting stuff.
The video linked above, of a Jade "PF 1901", has been reviewed as being the closest modern absinthe to original well-preserved bottles.
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I’ve never understood the belief that creativity based on intoxication has value. It’s just cheating.
Why all this hullabaloo. Absinth is nothing more than a biofuel.
“Choose your poison.”
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