Oh for… no, it’s not. Diabetic test strips are subsidized under medicare, and diabetics are given a great deal more of them than they can reasonably use in a month. Because cash benefits are largely unheard of in the US, those (sealed) strips have become a form of pseudocurrency (the sealed strips can then be resold to medical device suppliers or black-marketed to any number of places) and goes unregulated because even the cops think it’s dumb to prosecute, so it lowkey flourishes provided nobody makes a big enough deal about it. Disabled people get some cash to help out, other disabled people get reduced cost medical supplies, some skeezy chick in a honda accord makes a cut as the middleman.