# Absinth?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/absinth/240277>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [April 16, 2004, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/absinth/240277 "2004-04-16T01:07:10Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![Spezza](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a698b9/32.png) [@Spezza](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spezza)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2004, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/absinth/240277/1 "2004-04-16T01:07:10Z")

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I am in the market for a bottle of Absinth for a gift. However, a friend of mine said that Absinth from the Czech Republic isn’t subject to health restrictions of Canada and America; and therefore better/purer.

Does anybody know if this is true? And if so, does anybody have any suggestions on how one could import a bottle from Europe without excessive expense?

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**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2004, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/absinth/240277/2 "2004-04-16T01:08:54Z")

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As far as I know, absinthe is illegal in the states. So if Czech absinthe _is_ legal, it would seem to me that would me that it’s not the real stuff.

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**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2004, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/absinth/240277/3 "2004-04-16T01:09:21Z")

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Say there…Isn’t that stuff illegal here? And so we can’t have this little talk.

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**Author:** ![Spezza](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a698b9/32.png) [@Spezza](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spezza)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2004, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/absinth/240277/4 "2004-04-16T01:11:08Z")

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Absinth is legal in Canada, where I am asking my question from.

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**Author:** ![Spezza](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a698b9/32.png) [@Spezza](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spezza)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2004, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/absinth/240277/5 "2004-04-16T01:13:23Z")

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[http://www.lcbo.com/stores\_products/product\_search/index.html](http://www.lcbo.com/stores_products/product_search/index.html)

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**Author:** ![Cillasi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@Cillasi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cillasi)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2004, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/absinth/240277/6 "2004-04-16T01:15:06Z")

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I think what was meant is that the stuff we can get has all of the dangerous impurities removed - it is sanitized, so to speak. If you can get your hands on the REAL absinthe, you’d experience the better, as well as risk the worse, effects of it.

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**Author:** ![John\_Kentzel-Griffin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ccd318/32.png) [@John\_Kentzel-Griffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Kentzel-Griffin)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2004, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/absinth/240277/7 "2004-04-16T01:16:29Z")

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