Roughly until that era, most of the hard drugs that street gangs deal in today were unregulated, so there wasn't a whole lot of margin in pushing cocaine, marij

Roughly until that era, most of the hard drugs that street gangs deal in today were unregulated, so there wasn't a whole lot of margin in pushing cocaine, marijuana, or opiates. Anyone and their brother could just bottle up coca extract and laudanum and sell it as "Dr So-and-So's Magical Elixir" at the county fair.