into an illicit recreational one of choice for the wealthy and connected.
It remains a very safe and useful anesthetic induction drug in both human and veterinary medicine--for which there are few enough available for those with serious cardiac or other dysfunction. I will speak for both when I say that such diversions mean not only more controls/shortages of such drugs but difficulties in using them as they were intended. When I mention the veterinary side, I have to say I have great sympathy for how the misdirection of drugs on the human side has caused many to be difficult to acquire on the veterinary side (xylazine for example) or others to be designated controlled when they were not for very many years (e.g., torbutrol).
Not only does this cause safety issues for both humans and animals when these drugs become less available or are abused, but can leave us with fewer options if it ceases to be produced. We saw that years ago with a drug called thiamylal, an injectable barbiturate used similarly to propofol today for both human and veterinary uses--but when US states sought to take over supplies for lethal injection, death penalty opponents in Europe who produced the drug simply chose to cease making it (can't blame them, but damn...)
So, it only adds to my overwhelming disdain for Musk--as if I need more reasons. 
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