So in the course of a few minutes you've gone from
"illegal" to "effectively illegal". Hell, man.. wait
an hour and it'll be free, using your logic. Or was it just hyperbole?
Government intervention has created an atmosphere where doctors fear to prescribe it, distributors fear to sell it and pharmacies fear to fill it. They are not fearing the market forces. They are fearing what the government will do to them.
In what world is that not the same thing as being illegal?
illegal (adjective)
contrary to or forbidden by law, especially criminal law.
law (noun)
the system of rules which a particular country or community recognizes as regulating the actions of its members and which it may enforce by the imposition of penalties.