Those other things such as drugs, prostitution, homosexuality, etc., have been legislated against and controlled under the rationale of ‘good of the culture’.
In my mind, it’s a valid argument. Healthiness/Wholeness is a legitimate cultural concern. We forbid blood donations from those in countries with mad cow disease even though the probability of infection is in the multi-millions to one.
In my mind, it’s a valid argument. Healthiness/Wholeness is a legitimate cultural concern. We forbid blood donations from those in countries with mad cow disease even though the probability of infection is in the multi-millions to one.
Drugs are a public health threat, if at all (nobody ever got a communicable disease from pot), because of their illegality and consequent behaviors like sharing of hard-to-get-because-illegal needles. And prostitution is no more a public health threat than noncommercial promiscuity - should we criminalize that?