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On 23 Sep 2005 12:01:21 -0700, wrote:

JIMinFL wrote:
WHAT A GRIND: Seattle strip-club dancers were fuming Wednesday after a
city council panel approved new restrictions on clubs, including one
that says dancers must keep four feet away from customers at all times.
Tiffany Neatrour told the Sept. 22 Seattle Times that if the rule
becomes law, she will have trouble supporting her two children because
"nobody wants to pay for a dance four feet away." Perhaps not, but
Councilman Richard McIver shot back with a somewhat loftier observation:
"Drug dealing might pay family wages," he noted. "That doesn't mean we
should legalize drugs."
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Actually, we should legalize drugs (not street level drug dealing) and
prostitution as well. There are few objections to prostitution that
aren't based in a puritanical fear of sex in general or the abusive
elements brought to the trade by the current group of criminals now
pimping in most communities. Properly regulated and taxed, the sex
trade actually loses much of its mysterious allure and the public
health risk is reduced. Does anybody really believe that guys who want
a prostitute today don't know where to find one? Legalizing
prostitution would not result in a lot of additional men running out
and screwing skanky whores, but it would put a lot of really nasty and
often vicious criminal pimps out of business.

Tax it!

Our misguided war on drugs is almost directly responsible for the
terrorist attacks of 9-11. Osama bin Ladin controls thousands of acres
of
opium poppies in Afghanistan and surrounding countries and makes a huge
percentage of the money required to fund his terrorist activites from
trafficking in illegal drugs. Take heroin distribution away from
organized crime and suddenly bin Ladin is seriously defunded.

Marijuana should be treated like alcohol, legally available to adults
from licensed vendors and very heavily taxed. Long term use of
marijuana is absolutely detrimental to personal health, but the
substance should not be treated differently from the many other harmful
foods and beverages that are freely distributed in our society (often
to kids) without restraint.

Tax it!

Harder drugs should be available in publicly funded clinics. No
questions asked. Access to the harder drugs should be conditioned upon
entering into some form of treatment and striving toward recovery. The
public funding would be expensive, but we are currently paying far,
far, more each year to catch the criminal drug dealers, lock them up in
prison, and in social costs to the victims of the crimes committed by
the dealers and their customers.

Tax it!

If some poor desperate guy needs to pay for sex, in Seattle or anywhere
else, it's probably better if there's a provision for doing so rather
than allowing the sexual deprivation to morph into sexual derangement.
I'd rather see some guy take his frustrations to the whore house rather
than hanging around a playground.

Tax them too! You're just trying to reduce the national debt. I see through your
schemes.

In the Netherlands, prostitution is treated as a profession. The prostitutes are
licensed, taxed, and must be seen by a doctor every two weeks. (This from my
Dutch friend who is visiting now.)
--
John H

"All decisions are the result of binary thinking."