The only reason fentanyl ever got made and sold illicitly is that prohibition creates an extremely strong incentive for everyone in the supply chain to avoid de

The only reason fentanyl ever got made and sold illicitly is that prohibition creates an extremely strong incentive for everyone in the supply chain to avoid detection (if you get caught, you spend a few decades locked inside a cage, no fun) -- and increasing potency/volume is an excellent way to do so. This is known as the "iron law of prohibition": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_law_of_prohibition https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_law_of_prohibition The drug war is the reason opioid use has shifted from opium smoking and laudanum-eating to injectable heroin to fentanyl and to literal carfentanil (which is so potent it's been used as a chemical weapon). Indeed, you remove prohibition altogether, fentanyl will disappear from the market, because there won't be any incentive to minimise volume of product to avoid surveillance/arrest/imprisonment. DEA doorkicking is the only reason illicit fentanyl ever became a thing and it's absurd to suggest that more doorkicking and arrests are going to solve this problem. Don't like fentanyl being sold? Cool. Take it up with those who are to blame -- the creators and enforcers of these laws.