“And if you were around in the 20’s you would have said, “And they could end all this tomorrow by decriminalizing alcohol.”
And he would be correct.
Prohibition was the catalyst and the vehicle for taking common street punks and organizing them into sophisticated criminal organizations that exist to this day.
History is repeating itself.
So, legalizing alcohol did NOT get rid of organized crime. But legalizing drugs will. Uh-huh.