Prostitution and Drugs: Should they be legal?

Prostitution, yes. Regulated and with mandatory health checks. Drugs, no. Marijuana I'm ok with. Other drugs, no.

Over my dead body! Making something legal only offers those considering it permission to do it. I do not want my grandchildren taking drugs, nor do I want my grand daughters to consider prostitution as a "career opportunity!"

Yes, both should be legal, along with gambling...

What!?! Do you mean that I've been breaking the law for all this time now.....Damn!

Yes on both counts. Especially prostitution. It's done in various ways legally. People sleep with others for power, position, influence. Why not actual cash?

Alcohol is legal, smoking is legal. If people want to destroy their bodies, go right ahead.

HELL NO !!! WTF !
thats the reason people are so messed up these days..and specially drugs,,the killing and murders that are happening do it ! i am 101% against both !

NO and NO, NOT IN THIS COUNTRY

Well, if they made drugs legal and cheap we would weed out some of the stupid in the country. I don't know why prostitution is illegal in the first place. As long as it's regulated it's fine.

Only to some extent and under some conditions. Some drugs should NEVER be legal.

Absolutely not. People wake up and realize that every decision we make in our lives is important. Selling yourself for sex is the lowest possible thing you could do for yourself. Stop and think about your soul, and conscience. All the values that you have in your heart. Love is sacred, and priceless. You are way too important to sell yourself short. Love, real love is out there, have faith and patience (it is a virtue), and when you least expect it, its at your door.

Legalize both, tax it, regulate it, that would pay off the debt in a short time and we would have a surplus of funds, but only if we make it for emergency funding not for everything that the elected servant's want to spend anyway they want.

not prostitution nor drugs...

Why lump these two social institutions in one group?

The two may share similities but they are not one in the same.

nope.

The legalization of these things - and they tend to go hand in hand would help in some ways. However, I feel that prostitution is a debasement of humanity, reducing our urge to love and procreation to a simple animal urge for physical/psychic relief. We do not have four cloven hooves and graze in the grass! Drugs are often concommitant with prostitution and they alter our natural mind-set. Some may say for the better - but it doesn't seem to last. So... legal? Gets rid of the predators, sure. I would like to see a society that transcended the need for debasement of itself. Am I dreaming? Maybe.

Yes and Yes. No other man, or woman, should be enabled to tell any other man, or woman, what they can do with their own body.

well yes i think they shld
it all comes down to choice
if u choose to do ether it is ur choice what u do with and to ur body
of corse there shld b bounderies for the use of drugs to protect other ppl

Yes. If alcohol and tobaco is legal then why not Drugs and prostitution. People already sleep for promotions and power so why not let them do it for money.

definately a resounding YES! end all prohibitiion now!

Hell no. People don't have the right just do whatever they want with their bodies. What do they think this is, a free country?

prostitution shouldnt be leagal. it would spread stds more rapidly then they are already being spread. certain drugs should be legalized..as long as they arent man made. they should be natural. the man made on are the ones that will kill you and this society!

Yes, I want them both and would like the open market make them both affordable! Prostitution will cut down on a shit load of teen pregnancies and affairs.

Yes.

Yep

prostitution yes- as long as it can be regulated and safe for both people. no pimps- uncle sam will be enough. drugs- a person's body is their body. if we didn't make such a stink about things we wouldn't have such an issue with it. the war on drugs sure is a money/income producer that the government isn't really doing too much to stop. putting people in prison for drug use is a waste of their time & our tax payers money-but it keeps a lot of people employed. doctors have been too easy to prescribe drugs to people who become addicted to them. everyone I know is on something their doctor prescribed to them. some people are on so many drugs it's a wonder they are alive. either way, people walk around medicated. so whether self medicated or doctor prescribed-hardly anyone is themselves these day's. just make it legal and we can maybe win the war on drugs. Something good might happen. treat people for what's the deeper problem with them and the drugs won't be needed. that's just my thoughts anyway

In my world I would like to say yes to both. I think prostitution should be legalized under regulation in America. I think pot should be legalized only if the said people go through some kind of psychological testing and get approved, only because some people just can't handle pot. Being a very avid pot smoker I know this is true. People should have testing done and get cards or something but lets face it, if you want to do drugs whos to stop you either way? I have been able to get my hands on any drug I wanted so testing for mental issues probably wouldn't help anyway.

I believe prostitution and Marijuana should be legal. So far all America's War on Drugs has accomplished is overcrowding every prison and wasting billions of tax dollars. Illegalizing marijuana and prostitution has only succeeded in making otherwise law abiding people into criminals and destroying their lives to appease the Draconian morals of religious zealots.

Both things are harmful to those who do them in many ways but people are going to do what they're going to do, not caring what the consequences are or how they might effect the lives of others. There are much healthier choices people can make. No, I don't think either one should be legal. If there was less of that stuff in the world there would be less sorrow and sadness afterward. Think about it.

No and No

ABSOLUTELY!

Legalize all drugs and you will have no more drug dealers, less organized crime, less prisoners, less prison costs, less legal costs, higher quality and safer drugs, less wasted government spending and a whole new source of federal revenue.

Legalize prostitution and you will have less organized crime, safer prostitutes (in regards to protection and cleanliness) and you could tax the prostitutes.

Too bad our bureaucracy is too convoluted to allow any REAL change to happen. +3

Yes. Just because they're illegal doesn't mean that people are not doing it

Yes or decriminalizated at least!

Yes.

Alcohol Prohibition didn't work.

We still have prostitution and drugs.

During A.P., the term "rotgut" orginated due to no control over alcohol manufacture.

Drugs should not be allowed legal.

hmmmp! no way jose!

NO TO BOTH.
drugs make morons. i dont even like alcohol. the only thing its good for is cooking...
prostitution...this society is sex crazed enough. maybe instead of finding an easy hole to stick it in men should work on themselves (women too!) and masterbate more.

any form of escapism is WRONG! if you cant face reality, change!

i think they should both be legal. In most of nevada prostitution is legal, and is safer for the prostitutes and clients than any other state. Fewer STDs, less violence taken out on the prostitutes, etc.

As for drugs I wouldnt be willing to take most illegal drugs as there is no quality control. I would be willing to try most pharmaceutical grade drugs (with or without a prescription) with some exceptions as i cant afford to loose my job due to a positive drug test.

Addicts should be treated not imprisioned

It might be a good idea on both counts. One of the problems with both is their relationship to crime. If it was legal to purchase drugs, there wouldn't be a black market. If it was legal to buy the favors of a prostitute and we licensed them, STDs would go down.

I believe so. The government should have no holds on how you life your life. Drugs can be monitored easily, just as beer and tobacco are, and prostitution is like consensual sex. To deny us these things means we are truly not a free nation, no matter how much the government say they are.

Of course! Anything that's between consenting individuals should be legal. Government has no moral right to interfere in peaceful activities between consenting individuals.

"Freedom is the only thing you can't have unless you give it to others."

Both should be legal. There should be no laws about what you can do with/to your own self or with a consenting person.

Laws don't stop people from doing illegal things. Drugs and prostitution should both be legal and regulated. Just like gun control, only people who follow the law will not obtain hand guns.

Absolutely. There is NO logical argument that would support not legalizing, specifically, marijuana and prostitution. The illegality has not, will not, and cannot stop people from choosing to engage in these activities. The only results of the legal status regarding drugs and prostitution is the following: Criminals are in charge, no regulation and no revenue from taxation. Our national drug laws are a joke and anyone who drinks alcohol and yet has a righteous attitude towards, what is in comparison, such a benign and certainly innocuous drug like marijuana is a HYPOCRITE.

Completely. 100% legal and totally unregulated by the federal government.

That stuff is horrible! It should continue and Always be Illegal!

i personally think that ALL (illegal)drugs should be illegal.for medication,that's anpther story.

yes and yes. Because people should be allowed to do what they want to their bodies.

no way

no to both but I am surprised the the crazy liberal femminist who always cry that a woman can do what she wants with her own body isnt making a fuss over this being illegal. I mean, after, its her body. She could sell it if she wanted to right?