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"There should be a law? The problem with making laws."

The enactment of any law creates a slippery slope that can end up allowing the opposite results that were initially intended. Last year a friend contacted me full of excitement because the U.S. Senate was addressing the use of Kratom in the general public, and she couldn't understand my lack of enthusiasm. The issue was that previously Kratom use was unregulated, so use of this southeastern Asian leaf was left up to our own discretion, the way it should be. i contend that all laws create a monopoly, this has been the experience in every State where Marijuana laws have been relaxed. The true devil in the details can be found in the process of enacting laws. A perfect example is the Smith-Mundt Act of 1948, which is found in U.S.C 23 §1461.

This Act went through later amendments in 1971, 1985, and again in 2012 under the Obama administration. When Congress passed the Smith-Mundt Act in 1948 the intention was to prevent the spread of propaganda by the United States. The later amendments tweaked this Act and eventually in 2012 it was renamed as the Smith-Mundt Modernization Act: https://www.congress.gov/bill/112th-congress/house-bill/5736

Now this Act will allow for the spreading of propaganda both abroad and within the United States of America. This Act is obviously a Federal law since it's listed in the U.S.C. but if we think this problem doesn't exist in State and local law creation we are very mistaken!

In summary this is the problem, once an issue is in clasp of dirty old Uncle Sam he can anything imaginable, including lying, and of course self governance is never an option which was the original intent behind establishing this country. At least that is what we're told.

⚖️ Bryan-G Parker