Oxycontin is available by prescription, but I bet I could get a pound of marijuana quicker than I could get quarter ounce of oxycontin, legally or illegally.

I'll bet if I arrest somebody for selling a quarter ounce of oxycontin, that person will get in more trouble than the person who sells a pound of marijuana. Even though, from the feds point of view, oxycontin is deemed useful, and therefore legal if obtained by prescription, its illegal sale would eventually get an offender in more trouble than the sale of marijuana. In that respect, the federal schedules are inconsistent, when compared with actual sanctions.

There is a federal law against manufacturing and marketing paraphernalia specifically designed for the illegal use of controlled substances. I wasn't even aware of it until my DEA buddies came up with Operation Pipe Dreams. There's also a state law in my area, but it has not been enforced. Until this happened, the paraphernalia merchants were getting away it by claiming, (nudge, nudge, wink, wink) that their products were only for the consumption of legal products.

That same nudgenudgewinkwink is currently used by the overwhelmingly vast majority of ostensibly "seriously ill" people who have obtained "medical marijuana" cards.