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I'll use pot as an example. None of the effects produced by smoking are virtuous. Gluttony, laziness, lowered sexual inhibitions, are all vices. Vices shouldn't be encouraged by legitimizing the behavior through legalization.

Drinking produces un-virtuous results too. Should we ban it? Wealth can produce a lack of virtue. Should we ban capitalism?

Give me a break, A.J. By the term "object" I mean dehumanizing to base level. Prostitution helps create a moral and social climate conducive to sexual abuse and expoitation.

They're not "dehumanized", and do not become objects. Sin, in fact, is a characteristically human activity.

I do believe that fornication is immoral, but I would like to stay on the topic of prostitution and drug use. The last question is too silly to answer.

The last question is a perfectly fair question, and so is OP's later question about idolatry. If prostitution should be illegal because of it's immorality, then fornication, which is on the same moral level (and is the immorality in prostitution, not the fact that money changes hands), should be on the same legal level.

You're right that the preaching of a false gospel is not comparable to drugs or prostitution. It's worse! Smoking marijuana is an inherently trivial act. Denying Jesus Christ will send someone to Hell. Selling marijuana will get some people high (horrors!). Selling Islam or Hinduism or any other falsity like that will get people sent to Hell (at this point, "horrors!" would be entirely accurate).

Societal standards are important. Without them the line between relative and concrete becomes blurred. I have already given an argument in an earlier post on this.

You seem, here, to be saying that concrete, as opposed to relative, is marked out by the laws, in which case, some modern invention like Harry Anslinger's selection of pot as the excuse to keep old Prohibition enforcers employed is concrete, while the eternal word of the Lord is relative. That's mixed up.

I've already answered the questions you've asked. I'll only have a small bit to add.

They're not "dehumanized", and do not become objects. Sin, in fact, is a characteristically human activity.

That simpy isn't true and if you were honest with yourself you would admit it. Porn and prostitution degrade the woman because the man sees her as a fantasy. There is no love or respect involved and therefore reduces or destroys a her dignity, as she becomes merely a sexual toy....an "object."