>They would move onto whatever was in demand but still illegal, harder drugs, guns, slaves. I hear this argument a lot and it doesn't make any sense. I'm sure

>They would move onto whatever was in demand but still illegal, harder drugs, guns, slaves. I hear this argument a lot and it doesn't make any sense. I'm sure individual would try. But you don't get such a big industry just because of unemployed gangsters. The drug market is massive. It exists as a response to demand. A demand for guns slaves etc. doesn't just materialise.