THINK! drug crime down, solicitin' down.(no law against em) dope tax UP! whore tax UP! Health checks etc???? U VOTE!
2006-12-02 14:30:38 · 18 answers · asked by ridcully69 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
You might be a dope head and your mother may be a whore!!!
2006-12-02 14:54:37 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Decriminalization is the only sensible approach. In the first place it is not the government's right to tell you what you can or cannot do with your own body. Your body belongs to you, not the government. Legislating morality has always failed and will continue to do so.
In the second, making it illegal has never been able to even slow it down. Instead, it makes prostitution and drugs valuable to organized crime. The whole thing has been a huge waste of money that has harmed society.
In the third place, legalization and regulation would permit better checks for impure drugs or deseases. It would save thousands of lives.
The only reaons for them remaining illegal is it serves the politicians and the crime lords. That we are still allowing billions of dollars and thousands of lives to be wasted on such a lost cause is a crime, the only real crime involved.
2006-12-02 14:43:41 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Welll....with it being ILLEGAL, it's costing us billions, and hasn't stopped either prostitution or drug use, and never will. With it being illegal, the U.S. taxpayers are the ones picking up the tab for all the unwanted kids, meth treatment, millions in prison, AIDS and so forth.
With it being legal, could it be any worse? Whoops, does that mean Our Government would be regulating it? Yow, that's a Catch-22.
Look at alcohol - legal, ruins lives, kills innocent people regularly, destroys families, makes people act stupider when possible, politics involved in the licensing, but by golly, it's legal.
I wish you'd get a few more intelligent answers here. I'd like to know more from the person who lived in the Netherlands, where it's all legal. He says it isn't working as legal. All I can say, it sure isn't working by being illegal. I always think about those poor people dying from AIDS and other diseases that can only be relieved from the nausea by smoking a joint---and our government arrests and imprisons a dying person for using the only means possible ease their agony.
Only in America....
2006-12-02 15:08:59 · answer #3 · answered by Charlotte M 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Women and men prostitute themselves everyday already. It's just high class. Any woman that sleeps with a man because he has money, any man that sleeps with a woman just because of the way she looks is a John. Except for the obvious situations where a woman has a pimp and dresses like a hooker, it's hard to enforce it anyway.
As for drugs. I think crack has a street value of $10 a pop. Some drugs will never be legal because there is no reason to use them or prescribe them. But everybody that wants to use drugs is already doing it, even if they have to steal. Legalizing drugs would take the criminal profits right out.
2006-12-02 16:35:25 · answer #4 · answered by elthe3rd 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
no it should not be would you want your kids doing this stuff? I know it seems that they don,t get punished ,but for every one who is picked up even time and time again the money can go into the city and not into the drug dealers pockets,thats one less person being turned while they are in jail I think if hasseled enough they,ll leave your town.I recently read about taking drug dogs into parking lots and so forth every one said it was an invasion of our rights but if you are not doing any thing wrong you want care and it will scare the kids that are being turned out and maybe make other people take there drugs else where so our kids will be safe.If they legalize this stuff after while we want have law and order.their will be people being hurt if not killed.I would hate to know some one was hurting my daughter or son that way if I had one no one wants to bring a family up in that enviroment.
2006-12-02 15:44:09 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
its the usual excuse to legalize and tax certain activities that are deemed harmless. but drugs create traffic accidents and fuel other crimes and assaults and prostitution if it were legalized would send the rate of aids and other diseases soaring becuz the government would be less keen on prosecuting whores who were not being licenced and taxed etc etc etc
2006-12-02 14:40:25 · answer #6 · answered by the wise one 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Legalizing certain drugs and then selling them through the government or something would really damage the drug trade income and thus hopefully damage organized crime. But the downside would mean there'd probably be alot more stoners around....
2006-12-02 14:54:58 · answer #7 · answered by Jumbo Baby 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I have lived where both dope and prostitution were legal, it does not work. The Dutch are in the process of shutting it all down. Go and see for yourself.
2006-12-02 14:38:42 · answer #8 · answered by msouleusa 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes why not their going to do those things anyway,use the tax revenue to pay for health care and feed the poor.
2006-12-02 14:45:16 · answer #9 · answered by Mojo Seeker Of Knowlege 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, should do. But thats far too logical for any government to do. Except the crazy dutch of course.
2006-12-02 14:38:40 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Red Light Distrcts seem to work in Holland.
Sex and drugs all contained in one area, if this behaviour is going to offend you then don't go to a red light area.
Yes, I think we should try it.
2006-12-03 06:42:20 · answer #11 · answered by phooey 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋