He’s sorta right. It’s the black market nature of this stuff that drives (almost) all the criminality. Both in his country and ours and all the others. If it were legalized and regulated the criminal part would get vastly better.
Far better yet to quash the demand side of the equation. Then the whole industry, criminal or legit dries up, but that seems … unlikely … given human nature and our overall society.
You’d think after the first time that happened and the entire lawyering industry laughed and pointed at the first bozo that nobody would be dumb enough to do the same thing again so soon.