Thujone is also supposed to be one of the active ingredients in absinthe. Supposedly it has psychoactive properties and that's why absinthe was banned in most of Europe but other alcoholic beverages weren't. However, there's some debate as to how much thujone was actually in old-school absinthe of the sort that Messrs. Toulouse-Lautrec et. al. were imbibing; a lot of people believe there wasn't any, or there was too little there to be of consequence, and that absinthe was mostly banned because of the people who drank it--mostly artists and other bohemians whose way of life scared "normal" people.
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