[kenned3]

you are overlooking several other "american" issues.

1) Lawsuits

- The US court system is often used as some sort of "i won the lotto" system where people do dumb things, and somehow win substantial sums of money. It is often easier to preemptively prevent anything that could trigger a lawsuit

2) Powerful lobby groups.

- Many things that are legal elsewhere are not in the US, and often there is a government lobby group behind it.

Think things like this : https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/the-anti-consumer-25-chicken-...