The response was the appropriate hrmmphh at the very idea. They might, said Bill Drake, who started the Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Company. The assault on seed of course seeps through the fissure in society called the War on Drugs. The War on Drugs in its purest form is a war on botanical resources. You are not allowed to use an herb you grow but must by State decree use a synthetic substance manufactured from petroleum or coal tar.
Wild marijuana can lead youths to get addicted to other drugs.
Step up to the gate, buy your ticket, confident that the lucrative trade in extracted, synthesized, adulterated, concentrated powders to stick up your nose or in your vein is free of competition from a leaf or a flower. An amendment something to the effect that no government shall obstruct the Right of its citizens to provide their own from seed. But that was long before the coming of the organic chemical industry. Long before Zyklon-B. Unimaginable modern things. Seed is basically a package.