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| routes = Oral

| mechanism = Active principle is thujone, a GABA-A antagonist (the opposite of most CNS depressants). Also present in cooking sage (''Salvia officinalis''), tansy, and ''Thuja'' cedars.

| intro = Wormwood is the bitter herb of [[Pendell]]'s Rhapsodica — "where seeds of song are sown." Its thujone produces a clarifying agitation distinct from alcohol's depressant fog, which is why absinthe was the drink of Rimbaud, Baudelaire, Verlaine, Van Gogh, and the Paris bohemians. Banned in most of Europe and the US through the 20th century on dubious science; legal again in the EU and US since the 2000s.

| intro = Wormwood is the bitter herb of [[Pendell]]'s Rhapsodica, "where seeds of song are sown." Its thujone produces a clarifying agitation distinct from alcohol's depressant fog, which is why absinthe was the drink of Rimbaud, Baudelaire, Verlaine, Van Gogh, and the Paris bohemians. Banned in most of Europe and the US through the 20th century on dubious science; legal again in the EU and US since the 2000s.

| legal = Currently legal in most jurisdictions with thujone limits

| seealso = [[Calea zacatechichi]]

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| quote = ~~Bitter star~~, ~~the green hour~~, the ~~spoon and the slotted glass — absinthe was the brewer's variation on a plant the herbalists had been brewing for two thousand years before the bohemians made it the muse of Paris~~. ~~Wormwood is not the thujone alone; she is the bitterness that the bitterness was for~~.

| quote = Absinthe can excite sexuality, stimulate ideas and conversation, or dissolve the brain. Difficult choices, indeed.

| volume = Poeia

~~| voice = curated paraphrase — replace with verbatim passage~~

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