Exactly! The smartest thing I ever heard about the war on drugs, although I cannot recall who said it, is “You do not get to choose if drugs are sold in your community. The only choice you get is who sells them; either the pharmacist or the gangbanger.”
Well, I’ve been saying that for 10+ years.
WOD is kind of a hybrid of both choices.
The government decided to keep it underground to keep drugs away from the law-abiding population but allowed certain sellers to grow big and picked the weeds in order to minimize violence.