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Originally Posted by Caged Great
I am of the mind that non serious vices (Drugs, Prostitution) should be legalized, regulated and taxed. Part of the tax revenue goes towards the costs associated with the newly legalized things. Safe injection sites and access to treatment would be vastly better than having people OD or get bad stuff and suffer because of it. Similarly with prostitution, it will allow for a safer work environment (for both the Jon's and the workers) and less chance of them getting murdered, which is a huge problem albeit not the only one.
Drug use has been shown to have occurred thousands of years ago and has been there the entire time.
Prostitution is the "oldest profession" and hasn't been curbed since then. As long as men have penises, they will want to use them.
Instead of shaming these long held practices, maybe everyone should grow up and realize that for a lot of people, life is not awesome and .... happens for a variety of reasons. It is far easier to assist people that might not be in a great situation (Either drugs or being a prostitute) than it is to vilify and demonize them, especially when they are doing something that is "natural" in terms of it's prevalence throughout human history.
Also, when things like drugs and prostitution get legalized, the use of each drops because it doesn't have that "Danger" attached to it.
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I would never be on board with the legalization of harder drugs beyond grass, especially the more devastating drugs like heroin and oxy and crack and coke. I would prefer that we just take people arrested for manufacturing and selling them and throw them off of a cliff over a pit of rusty rebar, society doesn't need those type of parasites (The sellers).