But some easy bucks are easier and less damaging than others. No doubt if drugs are legalized they will move on to something else but the total market they can address will be smaller.
People trafficking is the second largest organised criminal activity. It's low risk with bigger profit margins than drugs. Data is hard to get, partly because there's little international agreement about what should be measured as well as the difficulty of finding the victims.
Here's a UN document which is reasonably cautious.
Here's a UN document which is reasonably cautious.
(http://www.ungift.org/docs/ungift/pdf/knowledge/ebook.pdf)
Global profits are > $30billion USD.
> the total market they can address will be smaller.
Bigger profits.