Word: absinthin
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Absinthe connoisseurs contemptuously observed that the humdrum bourgeois statesmen who make up the present Cabinet were wasting their time debating anxiously such a minor factor as the alcoholic strength of a drink which gets its chief effect from wormwood (absinthium) which contains the powerful narcotic absinthin. The alcohol in absinthe acts as the carrier and catalyst of the drug in its subtle assault upon the brain. Neither wormy nor a wood, wormwood is a bitter-tasting weed fairly common in Europe and the U. S. under such local names as madderwort, mugwort, ming-wort, warmot and wermuth. Swiss farmers never...
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