The last thing the Mob needs to do is to fight city gangs. The retail side of the drug trade - even mid level - is something they should have no interest in. That area is crowded with street gangs and bikers. There's a lot of money to be made in the retail drug game, but it's a very competitive and violent world and you need numbers for that. I'm talking quantity over quality numbers. And if they want to keep the violence to a bare minimum, the retail side of the drug game is something they should leave alone.

I agree with what has been said in this thread. Construction, white collar schemes (like alcohol and tobacco tax scams...there's a TON of money in that), increasing their interest in the docks (that way they can still get involved with narcotics in terms of importation, which is something the Sicilian Mafia, Ndrangheta, Camorra,...are all doing nowadays in Europe), getting more into cybercrime (mail order scams...also lots and lots of money in this)... Aside from that gambling and loans will indeed always be a thing; there will always be people that can't go through the legal channels, so this will and should continue to be part of the Mob's bread and butter.