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RE: Should we allow drugs and prostitution?
I agree with you in almost everything except for the hardest drugs.
Their is no morality in locking people in cages for engaging in harmless acts that I personally find disgusting or offensive.
The thing is, I don't consider the sale and usage of the hardest drugs only personally disgusting or offensive, I also consider it extremely dangerous for people around whoever is doing it. Something like when someone is driving a car 250 km/h in a highly crowded downtown area - he is actually not committing any violence at the moment, but he should be stopped because otherwise he will most probably get himself and/or some other people killed very soon.
It is encouraging that our society has gotten to the point where we can have this discussion at all. Of course legality and morality do not always correlate with one another. Just as I commend you for drawing attention to the senselessness of criminalizing drugs like Marijuana, I hope you also draw attention to the predatory practices of big pharmaceutical companies. So many people blindly trust their doctors and become addicted to prescription pain killers. We need more pot smokers and less pill heads.
I really like this thought. Sometimes, although your intentions are not bad, you are hurting or highly risking to hurt people around you.
Of course, excessive usage of medicines like pain killers is a very real problem, too.
Cheers! : )