"Fun fact! Some of the most commonly prescribed (and profitable!) sleeping pills are as addictive and dangerous as heroin. Meanwhile, the 'War on Drugs' continues."
Ladies and gentlemen: I present to you the U.S. national drug policy.
Ladies and gentlemen: I present to you the U.S. national drug policy.
Drugs which are as addictive and dangerous as prohibited drugs but which have therapeutic uses for which there is not a superior substitute are supposed, by the logic of the system, to be legal. This "Fun fact!" neither points to any problem in the overt logic in the system, nor a way in which the effect of the system conflicts with the overt logic (there's plenty of both to be found, just not here.)