Lucid is NOT real absinthe. It's just the closest you can legally get to real absinthe in the US. The only reason it's legal in the US is because they worked back and forth with the USDA to settle on an acceptable percentage of the ingredients that are supposedly psychoactive/dangerous. You can order real bottles online, my dad's had something like 9 different bottles shipped from europe and never had any seized. My personal opinion though, it's the most god awful shit I've ever drank. If you're gonna imbibe, go with the traditional method of dripping cold water through a suger cube. Shots are just absolutely brutal.