We've declared war on plants

In America "the land of the free" we are now outlawing plants to grow. For what ever reason the plant"Siberian ginseng" is outlawed in the united states. Along with probably lots of other plants such as hemp(I don't use drugs at all by the way). But in tribal cultures, plants grew on their own in the forest, and were used as needed(medicinally or otherwise). And any plants that were poisonous or unneeded were left alone. They weren't outlawed. And are never dangerous unless you use them on another person against their will.

So some plants are now not even allowed to grow by themselves within our boarders. Which is a war against nature. And if you were to use or eat those illegal plants, and they could prove it, then you'd be sent to jail. These laws or rules fly in the face of nature at trying to control other humans. But the real world is made in a way that makes this human made law hard to enforce, because you'd have to do a stomach pump on a person that is alone in the forest at the time that he ate the plant.

The law is based on the premise that we're not smart enough to take care of ourselves. Well I contend that we need stupid people around, because otherwise we would have never found out that a plant was poisonous without stupid people eating it, and us learning from their mistakes. But human made chemicals from plants and used in a malicious way, against other humans, may be punishable. But it won't prevent a person from doing it again if they're an addict, or getting money out of it, and it being a hard to enforce law. But, as a related topic, if you have to make rules to not kill other people in your society, then you're living around the wrong kind of people in the first place. And if it is your own choice to make a chemical and use it on yourself, then that should be fine.

It's when you don't have control over your own body that the people controlling your body have now become totalitarian. Whether it be a friend, or a spouse or a government. Totalitarianism only occurs if you agree to it, or allow it to be possible, in the first place. In the end, is it the ultimate goal of governments to have everybody in jail, locked up in a cage, "so that the people can never hurt themselves"? Is this the goal that all politicians dream of?

I saw a Nova episode about gorillas near the Congo. And during the study of the lifetimes of the gorillas there was a war between the humans of that area that turned into the genocide of 800,000 people. But after wards they picked up the research once again on the gorillas and found that they were all untouched by the human conflict and had actually expanded and prospered. The moral of the story is, "don't get involved with the problems of society, and you will prosper"

So in the end, its good that there are still places like Alaska that you can escape to before the government tightens its grip so much that you can't escape. And that you can still find wild plants where no one will stop you from using them, of your own free will.

Side note:If it wasn't for people catching mass quantities of wild animals and plants and fish and putting them on the endangered species list even, and then selling on the open market, only for profit. We wouldn't have to follow all of these laws and regulations for hunting/fishing/and harvesting wild plants, hadn't the greedy people forced these new conservation laws to be enacted, and mandatory for everyone.