Legal Opium

So what if USA when regulating drugs just left opium grandfathered as unregulated? So cocaine (and other stuff banned OTL) goes from something used by doctors to banned, but opium stays. Or to be more specific (since we still use Morphine, the active ingredient in medicine today), imagine a USA where anyone can purchase some natural opium and use it to treat pain or "other uses" and neither the ultimate supplier, the purchaser, or the final consumer committed any crime.
 
So what if USA when regulating drugs just left opium grandfathered as unregulated? So cocaine (and other stuff banned OTL) goes from something used by doctors to banned, but opium stays. Or to be more specific (since we still use Morphine, the active ingredient in medicine today), imagine a USA where anyone can purchase some natural opium and use it to treat pain or "other uses" and neither the ultimate supplier, the purchaser, or the final consumer committed any crime.
Opiates crisis have a whole new meaning...maybe a more nativist poppy production thus they leave them alone...
 
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