take funds away that are allegedly being funneled toward organized crime and instead, redirect those funds to an even larger institution of organized crime.

Aint that the truth. Over here where i live vaping the weed oils (not the real term, i know) is popular because the plants that we get here are very low quality. The problem now is the fact that since these oils / vape machines are criminalized even more than the plant is, that black-market oils are the norm, and some of them contain god knows what. I tried some the other day and afterwards i felt as though i had smoked an amphetamine of some sort and I did not like that at all.

Like your name would suggest, i am sure you and I think quite similarly about most things political / governmental and if they just got out of the way most everything would function better.