Bastiaan a dit:
:s can they do this? ....
can they do this? like- can they ban plants?
they've had their "eye" on kratom, salvia, san pedro, mimosa, etc for awhile... i think perhaps the reason they haven't been banned is they're not causing any measurable behavioral problems or social disruption (no addiction, no overdoses). according to the weird logic of prohibition use of the plant could go up if they choose to ban it, and go down if they leave it quasi-legal.
back in the day they would just burn you at the stake for practicing herbal medicine. some old lady was probably growing echinacea in her garden or something- burn her at the stake she's a witch.
which is why medical doctors and the pharmaceutical companies have so much money now. it's not hard to corner the market when a few well placed rumors cause the community to murder some of your competitors and scare the rest out of advertising and practicing.
the FDA has demonstrated that they do not require any credible proof of harm in order to remove things like safrole from the food supply. neither does the DEA require any credible proof of harms in order to put herbs like cannabis and alkaloids like dmt onto the Schedule 1. it's not about making good policy based on science, it is just an agenda. thanks alot- in addition to putting my friends in jail for no good reason you weenies have successfully made my rootbeer taste like crap too! y'all are some miserable petty fascist pricks, won't even let a man drink his good sasparilla in peace...