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Originally Posted by DarkCircus
Actually, wormwood has never been illegal. You can buy dried wormwood legally in the us.
It's the thujone that they worries about, and which was added in ridiculous amounts, for no good reason.
Us absinthe does have wormwood in it.
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Ah, thanks for the info. I knew the US version was lacking something. Many years ago I met a guy that made his own absinthe. He grew the herbs and imported what he couldn't grow himself. At the time I was writing for a magazine and several of us got a bottle from him and drank it one night. I was pretty fucked up that night for sure. One of my editors fell off the couch and broke her wrist. She didn't even feel it until the next morning. I don't know that I would drink it regularly, but it made for a good story for the magazine though.
