> If the underworld only crime is to sell weed then what's the problem? Well it ...

> 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