I'm someone who's been severely impacted by the opioid crisis, and I have a lot of friends who have been impacted as well. In my experience, this type of prohibition only ever makes things worse for the people addicted at the bottom. There will be a black market for this, and people are going to get killed when police use it as an excuse to terrorize poor and BIPOC communities even further. As you said, Eric Garner was murdered by police after they targeted him for selling unlicensed cigarettes. This is the end result of these type of laws.

I understand you've been hurt by piece of shit cigarette companies, and the way we deal with those companies is by going after them directly. Same goes for pharma companies in the case of opioids. We need to force them to pay restitutions and shut them down. Simple prohibition will hurt the people at the bottom exponentially worse than the people at the top. If this were not the case, then Biden would not be moving to ban this stuff at all.