@BillyB as Hollander said, 400K in 1950 was about 4 million dollars.
OK understood, but you're talking about net profit here right?
I look at the situation like this....the Mobs main rackets after Prohibition were gambling, unions and prostitution. So all of those rackets brought millions and the dope biz was something inevitable and became just another side project, same as the gay bars etc. So the Mob at the time failed to predict the future and kept the dope biz to a limited extent
