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by freedomben 2732 days ago
The nature of bans makes it pretty difficult to specifically name items that I feel banning them was a disservice :-)

But here's an example: Cannabis. Why? There's now tremendous evidence that the ban was misguided, and that there are very real medicinal properties that benefit the human body and help control inflammation. When banning it (and making it a schedule 1 substance) research was severely hampered and in many cases halted.
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danmaz74 2732 days ago
Banning ingredients for food is a very specific kind of ban. I'm against the war on drugs, but I'm totally for banning strongly psychoactive ingredients from food - cannabis should be a controlled substance.
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freedomben 2732 days ago
Many people consume cannabis specifically as an ingredient in food. But at a broader level I think it's unproductive to limit categories to "banned in food" v. "banned", since that's a very arbitrary distinction. Also:

> but I'm totally for banning strongly psychoactive ingredients from food - cannabis should be a controlled substance.

That reads to me as contradictory. banning != controlled substance

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danmaz74 2732 days ago
Banning in food = you can't sell food containing the substance as normal food. Nobody would prohibit you to mix it into your own food and eat it, though. So, the substance's uses are controlled, but it's not banned :)
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