Its not actually original Absinth, that is illegal everywhere except in certain 3rd world countries where they dont even know what it is and have bigger issues to worry about. Its illegal because it contained ludicrously high amounts of a substance called "Tujon"(from the wormwort) which is similar to cannabis. Todays Absinth contains only a fraction of that substance and not nearly enough to cause hallucinations or delirium(that real absinth did)
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this was the original .. I was seeing green colours (and various other things) for days after I had about 16cl of it .. and you could taste the malurt/tujon!
but I know it's illegal in Europe, it was in the Chezch Republic as well .. but they still had it in certain shops!