And oh yes: the absinthe one can purchase right now in the U.S. is pretty much the equivalent of "absinthe near-beer," well below the FDA thujone limit with none of the euphoric effects of anything with thujone levels above 10mg/liter.  Sat down with some friends and did a test drive between what I typically buy from Spain, and "Lucid" the stuff being sold here in the States.  As far as my friends were concerned, there was no comparison, and they were also very disappointed that they were spending upwards of $20.00 a GLASS for this "legal" absinthe!

For those of us who drink and enjoy absinthe, we know better...

Wormwood acts more like a euphoric than anything else: It does not allow one to hallucinate, nor does it have any pyschadelic properties.

Instead of having that team of scientists test for that kind of malarkey, they should drink it!!  And then they would unnderstand why some of us love it as much as we do...and write knowledgeably about what kind of "high" absinthe really does produce.

Check out this video of a talk show host drinking absinthe.  It didn't take much to get her going.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8R2J24y_yw&eurl=http://wbal.com/stories/templates/elliker_show.aspx?articleid=5583&zoneid=11