Letters to the Editor
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War on Sex, War on Drugs
At the core, adherents and supporters of both tack an emotional and irrational response which prevents a more nuanced debate as to whether or not either "war" is actually doing any good.
An argument can, and should be made that neither do anyone any good, in the end. That it is both better to (a) not lock up non-violent offenders in the drug war or (b) consenting adults in the sex war; that it is better to (a) spend money on drug treatment instead of incarceration and to (b) spend money on offering health care to sex workers than incarceration.
Certainly, legalizing drugs will not stop widespread drug use problems, a real public health crisis, nor will legalizing prostitution solve the problems of child slavery, abuse against sex workers male and female (or "other", I suppose), but continued prohibition helps no one at all. No one.
Except maybe the conscience of the devotees to the cult of prohibition, a bizarre and deranged dogma the founding father's would have found both curious and disdainful.