The American Mafia always preached against the drugs but why do that if they needed that level of income to make money and keep up with many of the money making drug dealers out there. Or, could they have stayed away and found other avenues to make money and replace any kind of money that came from drugs? Anthony Casso has said that he made more money from the gasoline scam than anything. Sammy Gravano made a fortune from construction. And Carmine Lombardozzi made a his fortune from Wall Street. I’m sure there are others. It is said that some of the old time bosses truly believed that drugs would be the death of the mafia in America especially because of the strict anti drug laws that were made at the time. But what do you think would have happened to the american mob if they never got heavily involved in drugs like they did?