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==Legal issues== | ==Legal issues== | ||
In the United States, it is considered an invasive, | In the United States, it is considered an invasive, noxious weed in the following states: Arizona (prohibited noxious weed), California (A listed noxious weed), Colorado (A listed noxious weed), Nevada (noxious weed), New Mexico (class B noxious weed), and Oregon (A designated weed, under quarantine). This may require land owners to exterminate infestations on their land or be fined, and allows access to government grants to buy herbicides to do so. It is illegal to sell plants of this species in the states listed above.<ref name=PLANTS/><ref name=Oregon1>{{cite news |last=Alexanian |first=Kev |date=2007–2014 |title=AFRICAN RUE, Now That's What I Call A Weed! |url=https://co.crook.or.us/Portals/0/WeedsWarriorsGuidetoCrookCounty.pdf |work=Central Oregonian |pages=11–12 |location=Crook County, Oregon |access-date=4 March 2019 |archive-date=30 September 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150930133937/http://co.crook.or.us/Portals/0/WeedsWarriorsGuideToCrookCounty.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Alexanian |first=Kev |date=2007–2014 |title=CROOK COUNTY'S NOXIOUS WEED LIST, How We Got This Way |url=https://co.crook.or.us/Portals/0/WeedsWarriorsGuidetoCrookCounty.pdf |work=Central Oregonian |pages=113–114 |location=Crook County, Oregon |access-date=4 March 2019 |archive-date=30 September 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150930133937/http://co.crook.or.us/Portals/0/WeedsWarriorsGuideToCrookCounty.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Alexanian |first=Kev |date=2007–2014 |title=GRANTS A GO-GO, Got Weeds? There May Be Financial Help on the Horizon |url=https://co.crook.or.us/Portals/0/WeedsWarriorsGuidetoCrookCounty.pdf |work=Central Oregonian |pages=117–118 |location=Crook County, Oregon |access-date=4 March 2019 |archive-date=30 September 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150930133937/http://co.crook.or.us/Portals/0/WeedsWarriorsGuideToCrookCounty.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref> Since 2005, with caveats, the cultivation, possession or sale of this species is also illegal in Louisiana.{{citation needed|date=December 2022}} | ||
Since 2005, the possession of the seeds, the plant itself, and the alkaloids [[harmine]] and [[harmaline]], which it contains, is illegal in France.<ref>{{cite book |last=Bruneton |first=J. |date=2009 |title=Pharmacognosie, Phytochimie, Plantes médicinales |language=fr |edition=4 |location=Paris |publisher=Lavoisier}}</ref> In | Since 2005, the possession of the seeds, the plant itself, and the alkaloids [[harmine]] and [[harmaline]], which it contains, is illegal in France.<ref>{{cite book |last=Bruneton |first=J. |date=2009 |title=Pharmacognosie, Phytochimie, Plantes médicinales |language=fr |edition=4 |location=Paris |publisher=Lavoisier}}</ref> In Finland the plant is officially listed as a medicinal plant, which means one would require a doctors prescription to acquire it. In Canada, harmaline is illegal.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/c-38.8/page-2.html|title=Controlled Drugs and Substances Act (S.C 1996, c.19)|website=Justice Laws Website|date=19 September 2019|access-date=25 September 2019}}</ref> In Australia, harmala alkaloids are illegal.{{citation needed|date=December 2022}} | ||
==See also== | ==See also== |