> If the underworld only crime is to sell weed then what's the problem? Well it doesn't exist in a vacuum, crime = money, money = competition, competition = vi

> If the underworld only crime is to sell weed then what's the problem? Well it doesn't exist in a vacuum, crime = money, money = competition, competition = violence [0] And it's not only weed, they're one of the main point of entry for coke in Europe [1] Some even start to talk about a narco state given how widespread drug related gang violence and corruption is [2][3] But yeah I guess it's easier to see it as a western progressive paradise [0] https://www.theguardian.com/news/2022/oct/06/cartel-journalist-gangland-killings-netherlands-peter-r-de-vries https://www.theguardian.com/news/2022/oct/06/cartel-journali... [1] https://www.euractiv.com/section/justice-home-affairs/news/europes-biggest-port-rotterdam-drowning-in-cocaine/ https://www.euractiv.com/section/justice-home-affairs/news/e... [2] https://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/narco-state-netherlands-the-slippery-dutch-slope-from-drug-tolerance-to-drug-terror-a-4c064859-9faf-495f-b1f7-c74900910568 https://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/narco-state-neth... [3] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-50821542 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-50821542