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Re:Is Legal Pot Crippling Mexican Drug Trafficking Organisat... by Symmetry on Monday January 15, 2018 @01:44PM (#16152452)
Sure, but I'd expect that there's some agent already in those niches and that agent would have experience new agents would lack. Then, uh, non-linear returns to expertise at violence do complicate the issue in ways I can't predict but the empirical observation that violence has gone down would tend to support the the observation that profits have done down and argue against the idea that marijuana cartels are now violently displacing heroin cartels.
Re:Is Legal Pot Crippling Mexican Drug Trafficking Organisat... by tomrod on Monday January 15, 2018 @01:51PM (#16152501)
One complicating factor is that the cartel can't use the traditional monetary system (as I understand it), thus allowing a quick pivot of assets (as they pull their money out from under their mattresses). Hence, if they _do_ decide to enter an industry, then can enter quickly, pay high wages, get a foothold, then undercut the existing market. Much like Google, Apple, and other tech companies with massively large cash piles they sit on.