absinthe is illegal almost everywear, the absinthe available in canada, and some part of europe, should not even be called absinthe, it is nothing like the original
you will never be able to get the original shit.
you can get shit like it, but its wont make you halucinate, if it does you need to drink alot of it.
its been illegal mfor like 80 years, so no original recipies exist, the people who continued to make it after it became illegal may have passed the recipie to other brewers, but the recipie has become distorted because of its lack of legalization anywear.
having said that in america there has always been an absenth like drink, I forget what it was called... or did I chose not to remember because it sucked?
either way its watered down, on top of not being very halucinigenic in the first place.