Absinthe is Legal Again - 11 Things You Need to Know
According to Wired.com, German scientists have recently discovered that there wasn’t really anything hallucinogenic in absinthe, but at the time, absinthe addiction was blamed for everything from causing people to become delusional and insane, to provoking epilepsy and tuberculosis.
For these reasons, absinthe was banned in Switzerland in 1907 and the new law was penned into the Swiss constitution.
Now Absinthe is being legalized in some US states: Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Washington D.C., Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Wisconsin and Wyoming.
For these reasons, absinthe was banned in Switzerland in 1907 and the new law was penned into the Swiss constitution.
Now Absinthe is being legalized in some US states: Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Washington D.C., Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Wisconsin and Wyoming.
Posted 72 days ago
todd
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mabrown:
Several of the local liquor stores and beer marts (in Madison, WI) have been promoting absinthe since it became legal here about 6 months ago. I, for one, love the propaganda[rtwork] that we created early last century to convince our public that absinthe ruined the mind and lives.
