So apparently the green fairy is making its way back to the US after a long time ban.
The green liquor that is sometime called the queen of poisons has been banned since 1915.
However, some companies have found away around the ban, WJXT-TV reported.
"It was outlawed because of the narcotic quality," said Riverside Liquors owner David Joudi. "It's already being imported into the states under camouflage of packaging."Bob Merendino, also of Riverside Liquors, said their store sells a product similar to Absinthe that does not have the wormwood. The wormwood is the illegal and controversial part of the drink. However, consumers might start seeing the product make a comeback.
Wormwood was said to have some hallucinogenic qualities, but this weird attribution may have been due to the competitive nature of the liquor producers of the late eighteen-hundreds who sought to add to the mystical nature of the drink by adding all sorts of really nasty ingredients. Some say that the amount of narcotic in a bottle of absinthe is less than that of a few sage leaves. We're not completely sure of this as of right now, but we're pretty confident that the legendary status of this drink among the bohemian set 100 years ago was mostly exaggeration...oh, and a little more inedible ingredients than most people would be comfortable with.
