What is key to understand is that the CIA only runs drugs, nothing else. Drugs are a source of capital and endless political power, all untraced, all attributable and utterly unstoppable during a period of endless war when the CIA runs its own airlines and lives in a world with no frontiers and no oversight of any kind.
Expecting otherwise is insane.
it has become "clear that broad-based reforms are needed now more than ever to prevent the continued California-zation of Texas."Uhh, centralization of power is what will cause that horrible fate.