Posted: 6/20/2008 10:25:35 AM EDT
| is absinthe legal in the states? i heard it was illegal to make and sell but legal to possess? how do you get it? ive had it before but wasnt sure how to obtain it myself. is it ok to order one bottle at a time from europe or what??? |
Well, we have never heard of this before Illegal to make? As is all other distilled alcoholic beverages. Best absinthe is distilled from the herbs/flavors. They sell some that is highly limited in the wormwood psychotropic thujone. This drug, isolated from Artemisia absinthium and found in Absinthe, is responsible for the "magic" It isn't that good. Stick to beer, scotch and sherry. |
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Tucker Max Absinthe Probably NSFW. There you go. On a personal note, I'm pretty sure you can legally buy it in the US now. I drank some at a bar in New Orleans last year. |
I'd have to agree. It's over-rated and even though I love me some tuckermax stories my experience has been that the only people that really get into drinking it are the nouveau-beatniks that like to smoke clove cigarettes. |
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hey hey hey, i like cloves. one of my buddys whos a corpsman called me a fag when he saw me smoke one. but they taste good. so anyways, i looked it up on wiki and heres what it said United States US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulations allow Artemisia species in foods or beverages, but those that contain Artemisia species, white cedar, oak moss, tansy or yarrow must be thujone free.[58] Other herbs that contain thujone have no restrictions. For example, sage and sage oil (which can be almost 50% thujone)[53] are on the FDA’s list of substances generally recognized as safe.[59] The prevailing consensus of interpretation of United States law and regulations among American absinthe connoisseurs is that it is probably legal to purchase such a product for personal use in the US. It is prohibited to sell items meant for human consumption which contain thujone derived from Artemisia species. (This derives from a FDA regulation, as opposed to a DEA regulation.) According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection literature, the importation of absinthe is no longer listed as "prohibited" but now subject to FDA and Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB) approval like other distilled spirits.[60] Absinthe can be and occasionally is seized by United States Customs if it appears to be for human consumption and can be seized inside the US with a warrant.[61][62] A faux-absinthe liquor called Absente, made with southern wormwood (Artemisia abrotanum) instead of grande wormwood (Artemisia absinthium), is sold legally in the United States and does not contain grande wormwood. This was the first US approval referring to "absinthe" on the front label; the front label says "Absinthe Refined" but the TTB classified the product as liqueur. In 2007, TTB relaxed the US absinthe ban, and approved several brands for sale.[63] These brands must pass TTB testing, which is performed by the Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry method[64] and TTB considers a product to be thujone-free if the FDA’s test measures less than 10ppm (equal to 10mg/kg) thujone.[65] A US distillery also began producing and selling absinthe, the first US company to do so since 1912. [66] ssssoooo...i can risk ordering it. kind of? it MIGHT get taken? hmm. |
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I've ordered it from Europe before just to try it out and let me tell you, it's not nearly as cool as it's cracked up to be. Tastes like a cross between grain alcohol (my absinthe was 140 proof) and Jägermeister (a liquorice type taste). We drank a bunch using a real absinthe spoon with the sugar cube on fire and 2 or 3 parts water. Got good and drunk, but never felt any other affects. I could think of a few things I'd rather spend $100 on next time. ETA: The guy I ordered it from, in the Czech Republic, said he usually doesn't hear of it getting taken unless you try to import a large quantity over a short amount of time. I didn't have any problem getting mine. ETA again: What I've read in several different places isn't that the liquor itself is halucinagenic, but some of the basement methods of making it can be poisonous enough to cause halucination. |
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Absinthe was made illegal some time around the turn of the 20th Century. Absinthe had become very popular in France, so popular that wine sales were dropping like crazy and the Wind industry at the time conspired to do away with Absinthe by creating stories about it. However, the stories were based on the reality that Absinthe was royally messing people up including deaths. The reason why is simple. Do to the popularity of Absinthe, a lot of people were making it to get into the market. Some of these concoctions were made with ethylene glycol or heavy metals to get some sweetness and the green color that some people associated with Absinthe. And that's the reason why it was banned from importation. The end. |
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In the states you can get the fake stuff called Absente, but I'm pretty sure its still illegal to buy the real stuff. If had it and I was a different kind of drunk, like difference between wine drunk and beer drunk. It tastes pretty bad though, kinda like really strong zambuca. However, I know people that have ordered the real stuff online and not had any problems. I doubt you'd get busted by the ATF for a bottle of the good stuff. Also, the trick with Absinthe is to not get too drunk with it. The effects of the wormwood are subtle so if you're hammered you're really not going to notice them. |
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My absinthe experience. Yes, you can buy them. Yes, this one is real. No, you don't see flying monkeys. If you want to get high, there are much cheaper and easier ways to go about it. |
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It's available. This is a $62 bottle. It is AWESOME!!! But it won't make you see green faries like Poe said it would. http://i271.photobucket.com/albums/jj139/57plymouth/Junk/SANY0941.jpg |
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What most people aren't realizing: A) What is often sold and marketed as "absinthe" is a licorice-tasting alcohol that probably has no wormwood distilled into it. A1) A good example of this is Jaeger, which has its own unique compounds that give it the unusual high. B) This is ESPECIALLY in Europe where cheap shit is marketed to tourists for yuks. The most important thing which I saw quite often. YOU.DO.NOT.SHOOT.ABSINTHE If someone is telling you to shoot absinthe they are pulling a fast one on you. I had real absinthe once in a dive bar in what was east Berlin. (Ahhhh... Berlin.) It was given to me free by a wonderful old Germany lady (and her hot daughter) who talked my ear off about how wonderful she thought Americans were and how we were a shining beacon of hope during the years she was behind the wall. It has MILD hallucinatory and a really sweet buzz. |
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Ugh.. About half of you really should read this before you go wating your money. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absinthe |
It's not a scam, it's a urban legend. The amount of absinthe you'd have to ingest to get a hallucination would kill from alcohol poisoning long before you started seeing flying green monkeys. |
Seriously. It's not some type of magical drink that will take you on a trip. |
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bluefalcon... i wasnt talkin about orderin it here. i meant when i get back to the states. ive had it before and i never hallucinated like the rumor is. i remember feeling a special drunk tho. i felt more clear headed. and its just a drink thats out of the ordinary. i kinda like the licorice taste. |
Its not a scam its a myth that people believe in. I see Absinth quite often in stores and the only people who seems to buy it is people who believe in the myth that they will see strange stuff while drunk. The truth is that its just strong alcohol that tastes terrible, Probably 90% of the buyers only drink it once. Dont waste money on this shit, Buy a good Vodka instead or save your money for ammo purchases  |