"In May, Viridian Spirits of Manhasset, N.Y., introduced in New York a product called Lucid, which it says is the first legal and authentic absinthe in the country since the ban."
"...a little general background on the subject and its relation to New Orleans culinary and drinking history, plus a few wacky tales of very silly and uninformed people drinking poison and thinking (quite incorrectly) that it's absinthe"