de-criminalization of marijuana for adults age 21 and over. or criminalization of alchohol. one or the other. but paul, you're right, the government can't keep marijuana from being grown all over the country when its illegal, so how can it hope to regulate and tax it?

prostitution, geez. if legalizing, and regulating, prostitution would reduce the risks of transmitting STD's and HIV, then an argument could be made. and again, like marijuana, what sense does it make for hard-core pornography and strip-clubs to be allowed, but not prostitution. personally, i would not support legalizing prostitution. perhaps an argument can be made that legalizing prostitution would make it easier for husbands to cheat on their wives, leading to broken marriages and innocent victims. course, the same argument could be used the other way, which is with prostitution illegal, a married man who "dates" one is likely to give his wife an STD, and there's an innocent victim.

when the only victim is yourself, it should not be the government's place to regulate. if you, as an individual, have a moral or religious objection to some activity, then abstain from it. legal prostitution would not be an invitation for all men to go find a brothel. maybe it would actually clean up some of our streets, get the skanks off them and into established whorehouses, where they would be given blood tests and screened for HIV, perhaps stopping the spread of disease. of course, the men who are stupid enough to have unprotected sex with a hooker now would probably be just as likely to have unprotected sex with an illegal hooker (one not operating in an approved brothel) if prostitution were legal.

i don't know, if anyone has some more insight on this, feel free to chime on. morally, i am opposed to prostitution. however, does that necessarily make it the government's job to make it illegal? after all, some people are morally opposed to a family praying at a restaurant, but i don't think the government should make that illegal.