[HoustonTech]

If anyone is failing to understand anyone, it isn’t I. I understand your nuance quite well. By calling someing a “controled substance” you equate illegal drugs with legal drugs which are simply controlled. It is a little like calling an “illegal alien” an “undocumented worker.” It’s an attempt to blur the issue.

But I’m not surprized that someone who calls illegal drugs merely “controlled substances” fails to grasp that. They don’t call it “dope” for nothing.

[philman_36]

It’s an attempt to blur the issue.
It isn't blurring the issue. It's what the law sets forth. In the law established they aren't called illegal drugs, they're called controlled substances. In the law established they are called aliens here illegally, thus illegal aliens.

The nuance is that Congress recognized the fact that they couldn't declare them illegal as that would be counter to the Constitution so they merely "control" them.