Whats wrong with absinthe? That's a very good question, and I'm glad you asked...
Well as far as we know nothing really. Thujone, a chemical from the grand wormwood plant, is the main ingredient in absinthe that is said to be unusually harmful/psychoactive. Tests (which can't seem to give a definitive answer to the levels of thujone in vintage bottles of absinthe) put the number anywhere between 4.3 and 350 ml/L due to claims that gas chromatography mass-spectrometry gets a more accurate measurement of thujone content, where as gas chromatography alone can show inaccurately high levels due to interference with other chemicals. In any case, all studies I have read thus far have concluded the even if it was the 350ml/L high-watermark people say was in the old stuff, alcohol poisoning would dispatch a person long before the thujone could get to dangerous or life-threatening levels.
Regardless of fact, the absinthe myth has grown to epic proportions,
