Many people produce it today to try to feel the " absinthe effect " because of its higher thujone levels although it is now known thujone plays little to no role in these purported effects.
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Many people produce it today to try to feel the " absinthe effect " because of its higher thujone levels although it is now known thujone plays little to no role in these purported effects.
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The odd thing is that the FDA regulation found at 21 CFR 172.510 says Artemisia is a legal flavoring in the U . S . if the finished food is thujone-free.
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In 1972, thujone was put on the Food and Drug Administration's list of banned additives, which is why you can only find absinthe substitutes in U . S . liquor stores now.
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Other thujone-containing plants such as the tree " arborvitae " ( " Thuja occidentalis " ) are used in herbal medicine, mainly for their immune-system stimulating effects.
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Absinthe offered for sale in the United States must be thujone-free by the same standard that applies to other beverages containing Artemisia, so absinthe with small amounts of thujone may be legally imported.
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Absinthe offered for sale in the United States must be thujone-free by the same standard that applies to other beverages containing Artemisia, so absinthe with small amounts of thujone may be legally imported.
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It has been suggested that van Gogh was not just bipolar, but that the crises in his last two years were brought about by the additional effect of thujone poisoning from his consumption of absinthe.
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Notions of absinthe's alleged hallucinogenic properties were again fuelled in the 1970s, when a scientific paper suggested that thujone's structural similarity to cannabis, presented the possibility of THC receptor affinity.
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Thujone, once widely believed to be an active chemical in absinthe, is a GABA antagonist; and while it can produce muscle spasms in large doses, there is no direct evidence to suggest it causes hallucinations.
