@tiskaan @Arcana @kaia @mia @sim mobsters used to "go legit" from time to time. back in the mafia days some of those businesses were legitimate and the money laundering was secondary. they used to appoint people to assess those after arrests and see if it were possible to sever the business and turn it back over on its own.

for drug operations they would have to bring the workshops up to code.

although drug legalization is cursed. mostly because the state wants at that tax money, the companies want at that crony capital protections, and people are used to the black market's swift efficiency :blobcatancap: (we don't have a syndicalist blob) that the massive price increases brought by all the statists trying to 'get theirs' gets rejected.

t. canada learned this