The Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry (there's a Journal for everything, isn't there?) has a study due out in their May issue announcing that the mysterious and vaguely dangerous spirit called absinthe gained its reputation for being hallucinogenic underhandedly.
The herbs (primarily wormwood) used to distill absinthe apparently aren't anything special. It's the 70% alcohol content that most likely caused the problems for drinkers in the past.
So all those bohemians and avant garde artists who daringly drank the stuff at the turn of the last century were really just drunks.
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