> Some of us see a major difference between selling heroin to someone, and building the marketplace from which these victim's freely bought drugs.

Let's say I "build a network" of mules, planes, trucks, trafficking routes, and people who handle the distribution of drugs. I provide all the logistics to make the drugs go from supplier to end user.

So, a marketplace of sorts... in the real world, not on the Internet.

But, I don't actually sell the drugs to the end user on the street corner. That's someone else.

But a cut of each of those sales rolls up to me, and without me, those sales aren't happening (sure they could happen via someone else, but this particular network exists because I built it and I run it)..

I am what is referred to as a "drug lord".

How am I not responsible for heroin getting into the hands of vulnerable addicts?