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Most of what the law is allowing, was already done before. It's more about legalizing some illicit methods, even if methods are debatable...

Widely adopted behaviours can't be legalized simply because of their widespread. Do that with murder…

Sure they can. For most of history murder was broadly legal (that's the beauty of really small government). ;)

The problem is when the government quickly passes such a law with no debate. Worse than that, when only 5% of the representatives pass such a law...