I strongly agree that human trafficking and gang violence are not only reprehensible, but truly sickening. However, I strongly disagree with you that money lau

I strongly agree that human trafficking and gang violence are not only reprehensible, but truly sickening. However, I strongly disagree with you that money laundering belongs in that group. I mean, if we're going to arbitrarily criminalize an activity that cartels and gangs engage in, why not criminalize their mobile phone usage? It's actively used in their criminal endeavors. And yes, I agree with you that most of these horrible groups and events are a side effect of the war on drug. Without all the power that drug money brings them (which results from the fact that drugs are illegal), they would just be local bullies and psychopaths -- the kind that local police forces can deal with. But because of money that results from the war on drugs, these groups have accumulated trans-national power to the extent that the build their own submarines. Study the history of the prohibition and the mafia power that grew from prohibition..