Too late to significantly crush the power of the narcos by regulatorily affecting one particular business line. It might affect them on the margin; OTOH it mig

Too late to significantly crush the power of the narcos by regulatorily affecting one particular business line. It might affect them on the margin; OTOH it might very well not, if they're able to maintain control of the trade with the advantage of legitimacy. It is certainly possible to simultaneously, eg, scale up production of "legal" drugs on your regulatorily permitted farms, and threaten to murder the children of your competitors. That looks like pure deadweight loss.