Absinthe

So I was doing some research on Absinthe, aka The Green Fairy. I recently watched a documentary on it and learned a lot about how it is made, what makes it so unique and a lot of the truth surrounding so much of the myth and misunderstanding of it. I'd really like to try some good absinthe once. I tried it in New Orleans and have since learned that real absinthe is actually nothing like the absinthe I drank there, unfortunately it's rarity has made it's price astronomically high some of the good bottles are $185 a bottle! That makes me sad, but perhaps it will become more prevalent in the future. It is funny how we classify different substances and how unjustifiable that can be here in the U.S. Take absinthe for example, at one point in history it was given to soldiers as a sort of cure-all medicine and became so popular that it was common in cafes everywhere, but then a few senseless acts of violence by people under the influence of poorly made and at the time unregulated absinthe, and now suddenly the whole thing becomes demonized, even though scientific evidence shows that those effects did not occur in the majority of absinthe drinkers and those problems were not existent in those absinthe manufacturers, now, 100 years after an initial ban those who were STILL making absinthe from its native region, push to have it legalized and in no time, enthusiasts are finding a way of bringing it back into the limelight, and yet what was so common that poets, artists, soldiers, and just average citizens would buy it and drink it all day in cafes for about 50 years, is an exclusive and highly stigmatized item and therefore rare and expensive. It's a good example of the world in which we live in general, I think. We stigmatize things that are mostly natural and are ready to accept anything that is processed, packaged, and unnatural because of it's ability to appeal to our aesthetic tastes. We put more things into our bodies that are harmful because of this, than a lot of illegal drugs are. We pump ourselves full of prescription drugs in an attempt to alleviate any and every ailment, but we denounce other more natural substances. The world is a crazy, crazy, messed up place.