How many people know the actual fedral statutes including DEA regarding Absinthe posession?

Question

sarge927, please revisit the post you so stupidly replied to & back it up with some statutes for me. Otherwise, I've brought in 3-4 dozen bottles that have not been intradicted so shut the f*** up and don't spread government propeganda, worry about catching illegals or narcotics.

Answer 1

dude, who cares, right?  haha!  i've ordered all mine online for years, and haven't had any cops at my door.  and i have a substantial amount of soju (from korea).  personally, my view is that this retarded government has more than enough c**p to worry about than inconspicuous people with some alcohol.  i say, live it up and drink it down!  have a good one!

Answer 2

it is illegal to sell 'real' absinthe in america, however it is not illegal to consume it, or buy in a forgein country (or online) and bring it into america. unfortunately pretty much all absinthe sold around  the world is not the 'real' stuff they had back in the day.............

to back it up.....

Traditional absinthe has been illegal to sell in the U.S. since 1912, because it contains the chemical thujone. However, in 2007 some products labelled as "absinthe" were approved for sale in the United Stated. The situation is somewhat complex, but the short version is that the agency that now regulates alcohol in the U.S. (the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau) defines "thujone free" (an FDA requirement for any food made with Absinthe's defining herb wormwood) as meaning less than 10 parts-per-million (10mg/L) thujone. It is an ongoing debate whether "thujone free" absinthe should be considered authentic, with the common understanding being that traditional absinthe contained higher levels of thujone but current manufacturers arguing that vintage absinthe had similarly low levels of thujone. Whatever the truth of their arguments, the modern low-thujone absinthes are being widely publicized as the first legal absinthes in the U.S. since the 1912 ban.

http://www.erowid.org/chemicals/absinthe...

Answer 3

The US brands are not real. Even the TTB put the word absinthe in inverted commas

TTB'S POLICY REGARDING THE USE OF THE TERM "ABSINTHE"

Thujone-Free.

We approve the use of the term "absinthe" on the label of a distilled spirits product and in related advertisements only if the product is "thujone-free" pursuant to the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) regulation at 21 CFR 172.510. Based upon the level of detection of FDA's prescribed method for testing for the presence of thujone, TTB considers a product to be "thujone-free" if it contains less than 10 parts per million of thujone. However, should the FDA set a new standard for "thujone-free," in accordance with 27 CFR 13.51, COLAs that are not in compliance with that revised standard will be revoked by operation of regulation.

You can import real absinthe from Europe since 1972 when the law changed.

Answer 4

The reason nobody can cite any DEA regulations on absinthe is because there aren't any.  There are no controlled substances in it.  It's not a drug, hallucinogen, or any other sort of means of tripping...never has been.  What is available today is every bit as authentic as "back in the day" because it's made with the same recipes and methods.

However, the FDA (Food and Drug Administration) has limited anything made with grand wormwood (Artemesia absinthium...the ingredient that makes absinthe "absinthe") to be "thujone free" (which, by their definition is <10 ppm) according to 21CFR172.510

Full text here:

http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/cfr_2002/a...

Now the marketers of crappy absinthe who claim it will make you trip and boast "high thujone" and garbage like that want people to think that historically, the "back in the day" absinthes were loaded with thujone and were what caused Van Gough to cut his ear off and that if you buy it you'll be hallucinating like mad.  Not at all true.  Recently published are the results of extensive testing of absinthes that were made at the turn of the 20th century (just before its widespread ban) and found that no, it never really did contain these inflated amounts of thujone after all.

Full text here:

http://www.wormwoodsociety.org/media/Sys...

Honestly, the only thing you might be running into with regards to possibly getting in trouble is bringing alcohol into the US without having paid the appropriate excise taxes.  It's the TTB (not DEA/FDA/ATF) that you'd have to worry about.  Not to mention, I think it's reasonable to believe that they're more worried about the taxes on higher volumes of liquor, not the occasional bottle imported by individuals.

For what it's worth, US Customs isn't up to speed with the actual laws and many agents still are under the misconception that absinthe *is* illegal and may potentially confiscate it if found (though rare).  Even if they're wrong about it being illegal, they can still fall back on the non-taxed excuse.

In the end, you're taking your chances...not on getting in trouble, but just recieving your order.  Even so, there are very few people who lose out.