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The Absinthe Drinker - Viktor Oliva (1901) (foodperestroika.com)

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[-] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Yeah, there were historic cases dating to the prohibition era/early 20th century. And there were historic laws -- largely unenforced -- that stayed on the books for a while. Laws based on total nonsense. It just got caught up as part of garden-variety moral panic.

There's definitely still an air around the spirit that it is somehow more illicit and special. Which it... really isn't.

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