>So it should be OK to sell hemlock or nightshade

just going to highlight this part:

"At the minimum, [...] for my own personal consumption."

Yeah you can buy those legally online and plant them in your yard right now. This take is based on all of human history until the last 2 - 300 years.

> So it should be OK to sell hemlock or nightshade and other all-natural plant-based poisons?

Sure, why not? Especially the plant itself, I see little reason to regulate it any more than any other kind of plant. Maybe require good labeling is in place, but other than that why not?

If anything one would regulate cultivating it in the US due to it being an invasive species, and really shouldn't be grown in North America. But the cats out of the bag on that one, its already all over the place.

>So it should be OK to sell hemlock or nightshade and other all-natural plant-based poisons?

Rofl. Yeah sure but who's buying? Approximately nobody. So there's no harm and not even a problem for regulation to solve.

>Maybe even give them to others?

Already illegal depending upon the details of "give".

>Why is it any more or less acceptable to regulate the use of chemistry equipment than of agricultural products?

Because speculative "someone might" or "at scale we've noted that <some numbers near the noise floor>" claims are not sufficient ground for restricting the freedom of individuals. Those who argue otherwise have bad morals.

When you start talking about widespread industry and known, defined and obviously present harms (see for example all those pictures of odd colored rivers in the 50s-70s, use of lead paint in residential settings, etc) it's a different story but the bar for regulating what one may possess and use/consume in the privacy of their own home ought to be many orders of magnitude higher.

Yes it should be OK, poisoning people is still illegal