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I think the difference between crimes such as tax evasion and crimes such as drug dealing is that when a tax evader is caught, that does not leave a vacuum in the tax evasion market that will be more or less immediately filled by various competing tax evasion rings. People love drugs. People love drugs in a way that they don't love tax evasion, losing their temper and hitting someone or setting fire to buildings to commit insurance fraud. For this reason, there will always be criminal businesses organized to produce, distribute and sell drugs (assuming government control/monitoring of drugs). That is not the same as saying "selling drugs is cool." It is something that you have to accept if you are going to push for tough drug laws and tough drug law enforcement.
