Although I have never been involved in one nor know anyone who has, decriminalizing this practice will be extremly difficult. It will take many many years for society to change its views toward it. You must first gain the support the majority of americans before you can successfully decriminalize it. Even if it is decriminalized, there will be thounds, if not hundrends of thounds, of activists that will be against it. Like abortion, this issue is a hot potato nobody, in middle class america, wants to touch.
Taboos are hard to break.
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