Drugs and Prostitution, Legal and Taxed.
It would seem to me, This country could solve several problems by legalizing certain drugs, and prostitution. Drug use and the oldest profession will never go away in the forseeable future. Wouldn't it make more sense to quit spending billions of dollars in a futile attempt to stop them.
We could instead legalize and control them both, while placing a heavy tax on each. This could ensure quality and health of product as well as remove some of the primary motivators for violent crime. Between the costs saved on the "war on drugs" and the increased tax income, we would likely kill the deficit in a few years as well.
Added benefits would include a much lower prison population, less need for state funds to support an already overburdened court system, regulatory control over health and wellfare aspects, and reliable statistics on just how prevelant these issues actually are, just to name a few.
It should be clear that prohibition was a failure once, I fail to see how we can expect it to work now.
I, personally, do not partake in either of these options. But I can see the need for something to be done.
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