> More like a whole new ballpark in the devastation of human rights.
Depends, if the technique is easy enough for individuals to accomplish, it becomes a health issue rather than a crime one, because nobody will need suppliers/dealers/smugglers.
The real problem is the middle-ground, where it's an easy production mechanism that criminal syndicates can control, but not so easy that individuals can do it without making payments. For example, perhaps the cultivation/extraction/concentration process is too difficult, or the strain is engineered to require a proprietary chemical to live--a reasonable safety precaution in any event--or the "root species" is kept secret while strains that self-destruct after a certain number of generations are used for production at scale or resale.
During the USA's prohibition of alcohol, condensed grape juice was sold in "bricks" which came with a warning to not to reconstitute with water then leave in the darkened cupboard for 20 days, lest it self-ferment into wine.
Depends, if the technique is easy enough for individuals to accomplish, it becomes a health issue rather than a crime one, because nobody will need suppliers/dealers/smugglers.
The real problem is the middle-ground, where it's an easy production mechanism that criminal syndicates can control, but not so easy that individuals can do it without making payments. For example, perhaps the cultivation/extraction/concentration process is too difficult, or the strain is engineered to require a proprietary chemical to live--a reasonable safety precaution in any event--or the "root species" is kept secret while strains that self-destruct after a certain number of generations are used for production at scale or resale.