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Is absinthe legal now?

April 26, 2017absinthe beer DRINK food Legal spirits Wine Wine & Spirits

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Is absinthe legal now?

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YES. It’s not entirely banned in America. It turns out that it’s thujone that is banned (that’s the component of grand wormwood that was said to cause hallucinations and such–in fact, if there were bad reactions to absinthe it was usually inferior absinthes colored with chemicals that caused these side effects.) Luckily, recent tests on “pre-ban” absinthe that somehow hasn’t been drunk before now has revealed that there wasn’t much thujone in absinthe 100 years ago after all. Ted Breaux, a man who did a lot of that research and has developed some lovely absinthes that are available in Europe, recently released an absinthe called Lucid in the U.S. It’s based on absinthe recipes from the drink’s heydey and is available in some stores listed here: http://www.drinklucid.com/get_lucid_absi… If you don’t live near one of those stores, you can buy Lucid or another legal absinthe, called Kubler (this one is white no