Ken

Right.

There's no way the mob would have been able to make as much money as they made without prohibition.

So now, you go 50 years later, you've built a system, right, where...

The lawyers are making money.

The politicians are bitching and moaning about it to build more support for themselves.

You know, the money, everybody's running it.

The banks are making a fortune.

Every businesses in South Florida were built on drug money.

I know many a business.

I know guys that were smugglers, got out, bought real estate.

I ate in a restaurant the other night with my wife on Hollywood Beach.

And I said, this used to be owned by a guy I know.

He was a smuggler.

He made a bunch of money and bought the whole strip and then got out.

Oh, it's true, true.

True, I'm telling you.

Even if you just want... I used to go in a sub shop with a couple thousand dollars in my pocket and order lunch and try to find a way just to pull a 20 out.

Everybody had pockets of cash.

So what happened is it just...

as they put the blockades up, as they made it harder and harder to get, cocaine became a much more profitable thing.