Ted Breaux

After years of work, Ted Breaux got to enjoy the fruits of his labor. On March 5th, 2007 absinthe was officially legalized in the US once again. Because the iconic green liquor was banned before the US national prohibition in 1920, while everything else was re-legalized in 1933 absinthe unfortunately remained illegal.

It wasn’t until the mid-1990’s when Breaux, a chemists by trade, got hooked on trying to figure out how absinthe had been made in the 19th century, and then began trying his hand at making some of his own. He ultimately proved that there wasn’t enough thujone, the psychoactive chemical in wormwood, for absinthe to be deadly. It was his interest and efforts that ultimately got absinthe once again legalized in the US.