Meanwhile, Europe kept sipping absinthe like civilized folks. They figured, “Eh, a little wormwood never killed anyone.” In fact, modern studies show that a glass of absinthe has less thujone than a bottle of German bitters.
By the 1990s, EU countries had fully legalized it again, with strict limits on thujone content. The US? Oh, we were still clutching our pearls and whispering “Green Fairy” like it was a demon summoning spell.
