Most folks reading this will not notice the propaganda underlying it that is intended to further prosecute the war on drugs. This story is a weapon designed to decrease personal freedom to access medication and increase the power of the state to crack down on you. You personally.
Every system to do something, from can tomatoes to license drivers (or pharmacists) has a failure rate. The reported number of failures in 1.7M licenses is 700. That is an infinitesimal failure rate, and we would all be quite happy if the failure rate for our canned goods was anything close to that. We get quite a few more bug parts and pesticides included in our food than bad licenses get issued by the DEA.
Thimk.