The whole banning of Absinthe was undone long ago in a government reorg, but lost in the bureaucracy.
"While the United States may be in the throes of an absinthe renaissance, distillers suspect that new bottles will arrive slowly. Absinthe was banned in America in 1912 because of health concerns fanned by some of the same anti-alcohol forces who would later push through Prohibition. Due to a reorganization of the government’s food-safety bureaucracy, the ban was effectively lifted before World War II, although it took decades before anybody realized it." http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/05/dining/05absi.html?pagewanted=print
It very well may have been legal all this time, but that didn't stop U.S. Customs from confiscating all of it from my fellow travelers a couple of years ago when I was coming back from the British Isles.
Customs always moves in its own mysterious ways. They should have appealed the decision -- I've heard it can have funny results because they (at least ustta not) don't track what they confiscate.
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Re: screw wine
Date: 2007-12-21 11:28 pm (UTC)"While the United States may be in the throes of an absinthe renaissance, distillers suspect that new bottles will arrive slowly. Absinthe was banned in America in 1912 because of health concerns fanned by some of the same anti-alcohol forces who would later push through Prohibition. Due to a reorganization of the government’s food-safety bureaucracy, the ban was effectively lifted before World War II, although it took decades before anybody realized it."
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/05/dining/05absi.html?pagewanted=print
Re: screw wine
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