i figure we would not have any more drug addicts or prostitutes than we have already (meaning legalizing it would not make people try these things that they would not have tried eventually anyway)...we can collect taxes off of the sales...places were it is legal like amsterdam, have no more or less crime than we have...it would lessen the stress on our jail system which we use tax money to fund anyway...what are yall opinions
2006-12-06 08:29:51 · 12 answers · asked by the one 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
I've been for this a long time! Once these things are legal, they can be regulated.
Drugs can be sold similarly to alcohol and tobacco. Because they would legal, we would eliminate the high prices caused by their illegality. Nobody robs people to buy a pack of smokes or a 6-pack. You can also regulate the safety of them. There will still be the problem of kids getting the stuff, but better their 21 year old buddy buys them some legal and safe stuff, then buying some drugs of dubious quality and safety at outrageous prices from a criminal. Treat intoxication just like if they were drunk. Use the same programs to prevent intoxicated driving, etc.
As for prostitution, same thing. Treat it just like any other less than desirable business like liquor stores or bars. Hell, let them work out of bars, maybe with adjoining rooms. Make them open up shops away from residential neighborhoods and schools. Regulate it however you want, both for safety and to minimize the negative impacts. If they solicit on the streets, they still get arrested. It's less dangerous for the prostitutes, and gets the pimps and hoods out of the business.
We don't even have to do this all at once. We can take baby steps to see how it's going. First start with treating marijuana more like cigarettes and tobacco. Wait a few years and study the benefits and consequences. If it works out OK, open it up some more.
Same thing with prostitution. Legalize and regulate it in certain areas and see how it goes. If it's working out, open it up some more.
This is all such common sense that I am just flummuxed that so many people and politicians oppose such measures. Heck, we've even done a dry run (pun intended) with alcohol prohibition. We saw how abysmally that worked out, with all the crime and gangs it created. Why we can't see the same thing is going on with drugs and prostitution is beyond me.
2006-12-06 08:51:30 · answer #1 · answered by Uncle Pennybags 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
I think we're more likely to be moving in the other direction, to the ILLEGALIZATION of smoking, not legalization of other vices. Look, they're already well on the way to banning trans-fats nationwide, starting with the announcement today in NYC. It's just a matter of time. Everyone better get used to it. My only hope is that next on the list to be banned will be abortion.
On the theoretical side, I am of the firm belief that laws do not only exist to deter undesireable behavior, but they serve a much larger purpose, as well. They are declarations by a given society about what they hold dear; what they value as a whole. Legalization of drugs would be an announcement to the world that says "we've given up; we don't care anymore". Even if laws against prostitution did not prevent even ONE prostitute from existing, it still should be illegal, just on principle.
2006-12-06 08:41:31 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
All drugs should be de-criminalized as well as prostitution. Putting someone in jail for using a substance is rediculous. Alcohol, tobacco and prescription drugs, which kill more than all other "illegal" drugs combined, are deemed fine by society. When will we stop persecuting everyday citizens for wanting to escape, even for a short while, the hell-hole the earth has become? I don't want to pay taxes on drugs, but it's better than possibly going to jail for it!!
2006-12-06 08:41:27 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Yes, with adequate controls to protect residential neighborhoods. Not only does this reduce the overpopulation in jail, it also allows the government to regulate conditions in brothels, mandate health checkups, reduce STDs, and generate tax income.
Allowing prostitution in a controlled way works well in Nevada.
2006-12-06 08:35:09 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Yes lets legalize, Heroin, Cocaine, Morphine, Meth, Opium, LSD! Not.
You must be out of your ever loving mind! There are enough dead heads in this country already!
Do yourself a favor and read about the drug problems that happened in this country after the civil war when they were legal!
2006-12-06 08:51:16 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I think that legalizing it would make the people who are too scared of the consequences to do it do it, and that's not cool.
2006-12-06 08:35:06 · answer #6 · answered by :) 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
It would all but eliminate organized crime. Do away with trillions of dollars of government waste. George W. and his dad might go broke.
2006-12-06 08:38:47 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
as long as they kept them in certain areas. Holland tried this and most of the parks got littered with used needles and such.
2006-12-06 08:32:50 · answer #8 · answered by zombiefighter1988 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
No, there is a reason they are illegal and for that same reason they should be kept that way
2006-12-06 08:37:03 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
ok, well smoking is being banned everywhere, so why would legalizing drugs be passed?
2006-12-06 08:34:49 · answer #10 · answered by christy 6 · 2⤊ 3⤋