Joe Rogan Experience #2536 - Eric Goode & Jeremy McBride · Aired Aug 6, 2026
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California banned python products in 1970 to protect the Indian python.
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California did restrict python products under its 1970 law, but python was not in the original version. The state Attorney General's 1983 opinion says python was added in 1971, and it describes the law's goal as protecting threatened creatures in general without naming the Indian python. Falsifier: the 1970 enacted text of Penal Code section 653o listing python, or a legislative record tying the 1970 law specifically to the Indian python, would flip this verdict.
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Is it true that California banned python products in 1970 to protect the Indian python?
Partly. The claim stretches what the evidence shows. California did restrict python products under its 1970 law, but python was not in the original version. The state Attorney General's 1983 opinion says python was added in 1971, and it describes the law's goal as protecting threatened creatures in general without naming the Indian python. Joe Rogan said it (matched by voice) on Joe Rogan Experience #2536 - Eric Goode & Jeremy McBride, aired Aug 6, 2026, at 15:49. The supporting source is oag.ca.gov, linked below.
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