Imagine an alternate universe in which drug lord Pablo Escobar, aka “The King of Cocaine,” had been publicly contributing to U.S. politicians and political campaigns in the 1980s and 1990s. The very same politicians and campaigns that may have been sympathetic to legalizing cocaine and related business interests at the federal level.

You’d automatically think, “Hey, that’s illegal!” 

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