No, you're not going to wipe out organized crime's finances. Look at Colombia. In Colombia there are two main vehicles for the left-wing guerrillas and the right-wing paramilitaries to get income. One is the drug trade or taxing the drug trade and the other is kidnappings. Kidnapping is much more labour-intensive and much more difficult to do than the drug trade.
It will not end the power of organized crime. We will still have organized crime in this country. But we are giving organized crime fantastic resources through this black market that we've created through drug prohibition. It's very simple economics.
That's why a kilo of heroin costs about $900—these are UN figures from the 1990s—to produce in Pakistan, but by the time it is cut and sold at retail in the United States it's worth almost $300,000. That is purely the product of prohibition.