We were having this discussion at work today and one guy took the position that it shouldn`t be illegal to begin with and that 35 years ago they should have legalized pot too.
The problem with that is it assumes that in making those things legal it would eliminate all the bad things that go along however there is a thing called the law of unintended consequences.
If pot was legalized then what happens when that becomes passe,do more move to coke,heroin,etc?
If prostitution was legalized and they always say regulated then what is to prevent black market unregulated prostitution which would be the same as today?
Would gay prostitution also be legal and if do how then does society deem marriage to be between a man and a lady?
What would be the economic impact of that on society and so on?
What seems harmless sometimes is not always so,look to the misguided war on poverty that has done nothing but entrap and enslave generations into it.