Leaving aside the excellent comments preceding mine here. One aspect
of this wider issue is that those who work for government
departments and some NGOs take the view, or so it seems, that to
make blanket proscriptions against this or that is a reflection of
their being on the ball, or any other silly metaphor, when all it
reveals is the paucity of their intellectual talents combined of
course by their egregious laziness. Such mindlessness is not
restricted to governments in any one country, right now this topic
relates to the USA but believe me please, these people are a genetic
intellectual subgroup to be found in all countries and can be
regarded as one of the ways to soak up the unemployable in the
private sector.

Most people can cite instances where such bereft thinking invariably
results in the contempt for the regulations themselves and much
effort is spent, intellectually or otherwise in circumventing these
unnecessary restrictions. This in short order becomes an end-game in
itself, as in " lets run rings round these ..........s". Sadly the
downside also includes material which should never be acquired,
introduced, etc but the whole 'game' assumes a respectability
amongst group peers. Here in Scotland we have an ancient and
honourable tradition of running rings round government agencies
since the Union in 1707, whether it is illicit whisky distillation
where nobody who was caught ever suffered the opprobrium from their
social network right through to modern times with other activities,
doubtless in the US and elsewhere the same 'games' carry on, witness
your prohibitions days.

In a previous post or two on this, the point was made about species
getting away in one location but never able to do so in others,
Cardiocrinum gigantium in south eastern Australia being one good
example but it doesn't happen in any other state in Australia. I
frequently am asked to send seed of Scots thistles to Canada / USA
by some of the Scots Diaspora but never do, most of these thistle
species are a notifiable agricultural weed here which require
statutory controls on grazing and crop land by owners. Controls are
needed, sensible controls based on sound judgement not blanket
barring because just nobody has the data to support it nor the
intellectual desire to collect it first.

You will usually find folk like those that living in high rise
apartments with an extreme disconnect between their urban life and
that of the rural one are the same who inroduce these daft
regulations. Ce la vie. Fight against it and resist it fellow
bulbophiles.

Iain

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