When it comes to alcohol shrouded in mystery, it’s pretty tough to top absinthe. This wormwood and anise-flavored herbal spirit was illegal in the US from 1912 until 2007, when it was legalized with ...

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While old wives tales of absinthe's hallucinogenic effects have likely been greatly exaggerated over the years (the compound responsible for these supposed effects, thujone has been found to be ...

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Over the last two and a half centuries, absinthe has divided opinions and earned quite the rap sheet. Accused of being addictive and psychedelic, the spirit has been outlawed almost everywhere at one ...

It looks like Listerine and tastes like licorice. It might get you seduced by a vampire, like in Bram Stoker’s Dracula, or make you spawn a witch, as in the Broadway show Wicked. It might turn you ...

Absinthe. The name alone conjures glamorous visions of bohemian Paris, with artists holding court in smoky cafés and the intoxicating allure of the Belle Époque. Once hailed as the muse of poets, ...

Bethesda Softworks have teamed up with Jim and Tonic and Rebel Distillers and are selling an absinthe designed after the Skyrim item skooma. Skooma, a highly addictive narcotic inducting euphoria in ...