I am so mad about this and other crap that Big Pharma does. For sure if I got caught selling a little pot, even in a recreationally legal state, I still go to jail potentially. In other states, I go to jail for years. It is fair that I go to jail if I knowingly break laws and/or put other people at risk of harm.
The Opioid epidemic is just one more example of what should be criminal behaviour treated as if it is just the cost of doing business. The lives ruined and lost to Big Pharma's willful disregard for human suffering is far worse than drug cartels and the terrorist that supposedly profit from illegal drugs.