This common phrase has profound meaning when we observe that certain herbs will grow where they are most needed. This is something known by the wise but detested by the totalitarians.
Why do you suppose certain herbal medicines have been illegal in the recent 100 years? Could it be that they present powerful competition for patented pharmaceuticals?
A child of the peace and antiWar movements, a Truther with self-diagnosed Opposition Defiance Disorder, formerly politically liberal tho now politically marooned, and Post-Doomer, on any issue, I trend to the conspiracy side, sort through the absurd, fantastical and insane, until I find firm ground usually located just the other side of the censorship firewall of propaganda and orthodoxy, dogma, and other either / or thinking.