thanks Gary & F1

yeah, until fairly recently...with Rockefeller type drug laws with mand. minimums..I didn't think that the penalties for drug trafficking were severe enough that LCN would veer away from that trade for fear of people turning informant.

Any ban on drug selling back then wasn't done for practical purposes(preventing people from flipping)...because the penalties weren't that much more severe than for the other stuff they were involved in.