La Santa or whatever it's called is a good example of this. Their original code of conduct for the secret society was great if you wanted to tax every business in Calabria. If you wanted to CONTROL CALABRIA. But it proved to be an impediment to bigger business, and interacting with politicians and making the REAL moves. That's why they had to create La Santa. Cause the dope business is BIGGER THAN CALABRIA, bigger than a select secret society, bigger than any one ethnic group, or neighborhood, bigger than any ONE city, or country, or continent for that matter. Same with stuff like oil, ciggarettes, and women. That's why these are the biggest businesses in OC.

Sending coke around the world, revenue wise, probably beats taxing maybe EVERY business in Calabria put together. Now I'm exaggerating, but I suspect, not by much.

Also, I read the Piromallis Argo-food supply business is a 16 billion a year thing, I'm not sure if that includes drug trafficking, but that's a huge number.