what are we talking about here? Maria?
Incredible, crazy (if not sick) those Americans...
Laws that threaten you so much that you will go for serious drug dealers blackmailed and unprpeapared will get you killed probably, and in Europe - e.g. in Spain - would be enough to have all the law enforcement involved indicted and mosst probably sentenced for consciously provoking manslaughter...
Last year, a protected, about 1 metre large, "Voltor Negro" fell into my garden, and - bad luck - died right under my only and nice Maria plant...
Came the Guardia Civil (which I had phoned, as the bird was of a protected species and wore a state ring this was my obligation), they took the bird and ignored the plant (maybe they got me in their book, I doubt it, but if so: Fine with me, I don´t deal).
I love to be European and to live here and not there...!
Rattler