Absinth is part of the high-proof liquors and is produced mainly from wormwood, anise, fennel and many further ingredients. The plants known as medicinal herbs give their healing strengths, the contents, to a natural way to the distillate.

Absinth also was the first sold to as drug because of this in pharmacies. A very bad reputation, however, got absinth in the 19th century. Against absinth opponents and many doctors were these absinth true insult tirades proclaimed; the alcoholic drinks absinth became responsibly made for fights about delusions to syphilis and the fall of the morals of the complete population. The sloppy production was to blame, however, in the end. The greed for profit the producer; the demand got in a flash greater and the manufacturers came with this producing no longer afterwards. They consequently used irresponsibly cheap industrial alcohol like methanol. Methanol actually causes dizziness, headaches and nausea, the methanol moreover has loss of sight as a result of a longer consumption among other things . However, the absinth opponents also slid these delayed effects of methanol consumption absinth into school.

The content was responsible for the absolute ban Thujone in the end, too. One is hallucinogenic drug whose chemical structure is like the THC, a content of the cannabis plant, Thujone; According to the ban on absinth due to its contents one could buy absinth in no more absinth shop. The sale is, permissible again legally absinth, both and the trade meanwhile the pleasure and absinth is availably shop in every absinth again; Whole to the joy of the new absinth enthusiast, absinth, however, become contents drunk no longer only because of one meanwhile. Absinth is hip and the scene has therefore rediscovered absinth.

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