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(edit) Nightclubs have often been used for laundering money. Changes in how money is laundered because people going cashless using credit cards, legalization of the billion dollar pot industry, and technology have changed that. Also, there are other instruments for laundering money such as high art and real estate that compete with nightclubs in the space.

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The thing is (and I live in NOLA at the moment and have for years) even though cash bars have been declining the alternative scene still self organized - there used to be one just down the street from Republic on N Peters (which is not the FQ granted) where lots of people would head immediately after Decadence for example (I’m being purposefully vague but if you know anything about the scene you can determine which I mean)

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