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Why and how is Stevia (healthy natural sweetener) illegal to grow in some countries?!?!?

In what countries can it be grown, do you need a licence to grow it or something? Is it connected to the fact that regulations make it impossible to get organic tobacco in this and other countries?

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    i have one of those plants!! i didnt know it was illegal in some places though?

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    I don't think it's illegal anywhere. It's just not FDA approved so they aren't really allowed to start putting it in cola or as a sweetner for consumption.

    I think they are big on it in Japan though.

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