And I'm saying that it sounds like you think "the kinds of organizations" are using drug money to enable worse crimes. I mean, it's no secret that the purpose of certain laws are to prevent anybody from making "that kind of money," but to me your comment read as if there was more to it.
Because that's also the case.
Big organized crime groups often have access to exactly the kind of logistics required to manufacture and smuggle drugs across large distances.
They have the muscle to stay competitive in a market where there is no state authority to give you guarantees on anything.
Most drug dealers are not "big organized groups." I don't know from Hansa, but I'm betting a big organized group is not likely to use them as a single point of failure.
Of course, it wouldn't have been their only market, but it's among them.
Even something ostensibly harmless as cannabis can finance quite questionable people and groups.
A while ago Arte France released a series titled "Cannabis", where the plot revolves around a shipment of Morrocan hashish lost on the Mediterranean sea, with the consequences playing out all over Europe. And while it's a fictional plot, it still paints a somewhat accurate picture how a lot of this business goes down.
