[sandworm101]

Oxycodone was pitched as non-addicting. Opioids generally were pitched as non-addicting because they were by prescription, under control of doctors. That protection scheme obviously failed miserably.

[stouset]

Oxycodone was created by a pharmaceutical company and marketed in a way that would earn them a profit.

Marijuana and psilocybin have been around for literal ages with widespread use. LSD and ketamine are synthesized, but we have decades of experience with them.

[drran]

Marijuana use was first banned in the 13th century with the death penalty, so yeah, it's an old problem.

[chillwaves]

because there was a profit motive to lie.