Soft Drugs and Prostitution should be legalized.

To begin, forget the definition of drugs, its bad, for the sake of simplicity lets just make it all drugs. Second, for some odd reason my spellcheck doesn't always work, that's why I just ask everyone to forgive it. No for the debate. First of all I would like to ask my opponent to do his homework - did you actually read http://www.druglibrary.org...? It is a link about how the way they measure the overdose results are bogus - so you may add that to one of my source lists. Lets also take a look at what else kills, cigarretes, alcholol, OTC drugs as well as perscription, McDonalds, proper does of everyday household cleaning products, almost anything in excess can kill you. Why are these paticular drugs illegal then. Mary Jane (This is what I call marijuana and will call it from here on). Well one of the first places it was outlawed was in Utah 1914. A couple years back they outlawed poligamy and most of the mormons moved to Mexico. A couple of years later they came back to Utah and one of the things they broguht with them (along with other Mexican immigrants) was Mary Jane. Well once again, Utah had to try and get rid of the Mormon's and the immigrants so they outlawed Mary Jane. "Marijuana was outlawed in 30 states by 1930. There were two primary reasons for the laws. In the southwestern states, marijuana was outlawed because of racial prejudice against the Mexicans who used it. As one Texas legislator said, "All Mexicans are crazy and this stuff (marijuana) is what makes them crazy." In the other states, it was outlawed because of fears that heroin addiction would lead to the use of marijuana - exactly the opposite of the modern "gateway" myth." During this time period there was a strong nativist movement (anti-immigrant) so they rejected anything they used or did. Prohibition resulted from this feeling and that gave organized crime its first big boost and made them as powerful as they are. Now gangs and organized crime have used drugs AND prostitution in the same way. Even today this opression exists. Crack Cocaine is less addictive and less dangerous than pure powder cocaine. Crack is also cheaper and generally used by poorer, inner city minorities. Nose Candy on the other hand is expensive, like really expensive, like 50 grand for a batch the size of a brick and is generally used by the wealtheir whites who can afford it. Most actors and actresses are in rehab for this drug. Crack carries a heavier sentence, 3 guesses why. So again I refer to my value of fairness - These laws were made to oppress immigrants and minorities, they are still enforced that same way. They should be abolished. Source: http://www.druglibrary.org... Just to comment: use of alcohol rose during prohibition, and a poll by Zogby showed 99% of people wouldn't do hard drugs if they were legalized (they call it dope for a reason I guess). Source: http://stopthedrugwar.org... Just for some background on how many people actually die from drugs I found this list: The number of drug deaths in the US in a typical year is as follows: Tobacco kills about 390,000. Alcohol kills about 80,000. Sidestream smoke from tobacco kills about 50,000. Cocaine kills about 2,200. Heroin kills about 2,000. Aspirin kills about 2,000. Marijuana kills 0. There has never been a recorded death due to marijuana at any time in US history. All illegal drugs combined kill about 4,500 people per year, or about one percent of the number killed by alcohol and tobacco. Tobacco kills more people each year than all of the people killed by all of the illegal drugs in the last century. Source: NIDA Research Monographs Next: Prostitution. Most of my argument above can be used. Increased organized crime, doesn't really defer people, laws made by people who wanted to shove the Bible down other people's throats so they made this law, and legalization can reduce the spread of STD's through monitoring. The Cost of things: almost 20 BILLION dollars a year, almost 100,000 arrests just this year, and approx. 4000 preventable AIDS cases if clean needle exchange is implemented. Prosititution costs almost one million dollars in enforcement alone in San Fransisco, not to mention incarceration and cost of court. Sources: http://www.bayswan.org... http://www.drugsense.org... Anyway, no "real" sexual acts can kill you, although I heard about this one couple who did something stupid. The wife was tied up to the bed and her husband dressed up like super man and was going to jump from the dresser on top of her and save her in the middle of intercourse, except when he jumped he missed and hit his head on teh ceiling fan or bed post and cracked his head open and fell inconscience. The wife screamed until the next door neighbor called 911 and ran over to see what the commotion was about (he assumed a burglarer). Anyway point is that stuff like that can happen anywhere, paid or not. Spell Chack stopped working half way through so excuse all the screw ups, thanks.