My personal take on Florida's ban on GSF is that they are VERY concerned about non-native species. Being sub-tropical, a vacation land, a retirement land, and a major entry point for all kinds of commerce coming into the U.S., they have aquired a host of invasive exotics, finned and otherwise, that makes them extremely sensitive about letting any more in on purpose.

Don't they have pythons that have made in into the Everglades and give the Gators a run for their money?

"Live like you'll die tomorrow, but manage your grass like you'll live forever."
-S. M. Stirling
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