With absinthe never having been illegal here, it is difficult to think of thujone free spirit ( with the other aromatics and'tongue'and'mouth'feeling also missing ) to be the same thing.
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One study published in the " Journal of Studies on Alcohol " concluded that high doses ( 0.28 mg / kg ) of thujone in alcohol had negative effects on attention performance in a clinical setting.
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Absinthe with a low level of thujone is already sold legally in a number of other countries, including Canada, Germany, New Zealand, Austria, Japan, Sweden, Italy and Britain, but not the United States.
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Four years ago the absinthe ban was eased to allow Kuebler to legally distill and sell, locally and abroad, an " Extract of Absinthe, " a liqueur with 45 percent alcohol content and 10 milligrams of thujone per liter.
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I think the full flavour or perhaps better described as aromatic bouquet, comes from allowing more of the'heads'to be allowed into the heart spirit during distillation which includes as you say ( amongst other things ) thujone.
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More recently, following European Council Directive No . 88 / 388 / EEC ( 1988 ) allowing certain levels of thujone in foodstuffs in the EU, the studies described above were conducted and found only minute levels of thujone in absinthe.
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More recently, following European Council Directive No . 88 / 388 / EEC ( 1988 ) allowing certain levels of thujone in foodstuffs in the EU, the studies described above were conducted and found only minute levels of thujone in absinthe.
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"We looked at the physical composition of this brand to make sure x it would not pose a health risk to the consumer, " said Pasieka, adding that the thujone content in Hill's is 10 parts per million.
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After absinthe was banned, research dropped off until the 1970s, when the British scientific journal " cannabis ( marijuana ), and hypothesized it would act the same way on the brain, sparking the myth that thujone was a cannabinoid.
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The EU limit of 35 mg / L of thujone in absinthe means that given the highest permitted thujone content, one would have to consume approximately 0.5 litres to reach the measured effects, a feat likely to cause alcohol poisoning.
