Expanding upon that. Instead of imagining legal and illegal markets that keep separate like the liberal public-private spheres of life dichotomy, think about the dialectical (not trying to be jargony this is literally synthesis) relationship between organized crime and capitalist institutions. How come the intelligence guys who love forever wars in places that coincidentally have a lot of dope fields happen to belong to the faction of internationalist capital that makes pharmaceuticals? The contras smuggling coke, the Afghan warlords, the Hmong opium, all with CIA support. The illicit drug market isn’t just a good way to raise funds for US security state operations, controlling it has real above-the-surface political effects.