It may be expensive to develop but it need not be expensive to produce. Look at all of the technologies and products enabled by computers. Sure, it cost a fort

It may be expensive to develop but it need not be expensive to produce. Look at all of the technologies and products enabled by computers. Sure, it cost a fortune to develop computers from nothing and miniaturize them to the scale we have today. But now anyone can grab a cheap RPi off the shelf and use it to build something that would’ve been amazingly difficult to do 50 years ago. If we manage to develop drones and robots to the point where they’re mosquito sized, we could find a million uses for them. They could become so cheap weed buy them by the thousands and program them for whatever tasks we want. And of course they could be larger as well; wasp sized rather than mosquito. I’m not expecting the cartels to develop this technology, of course. But I can envision how they’d use it and it’s pretty terrifying.