Not often considered but true, prostitution is linked to hard drugs.

Hence it is essential to decriminalize prostitution for adults. It needs to be regulated in the manner of getting a drivers license.

For a trivial fee a sex license would be issued to any adult. Exclusions: violent felons, legally insane and those infected with the notorious diseases. (HIV etc.)

A condition of the license would be disease testing at some appropriately short interval. For the general health of the public license holders would be expected to provide a contact list ( phone numbers would do ) so that transmission of disease could be stopped. All fees to be nominal/subsidized for the greater good of society.

Any addicted person discovered would be offered free medical treatment without criminal prosecution.

This approach would ruin the economics of drug-whore-pimping as the players would shift their action to cleaner prostitutes.

This would also inflict quite a nick into gangland profits and police corruption. Criminalizing prostitution just means that virtually every cop you’ve ever met has received free ‘action.’

State regulated gambling ruined the mob’s ‘book.’ We need to go right down the list and ruin the economics of every mob franchise.

BTW the fungus that attacks the opium poppy is very species specific. It also will not get every poppy. It’ll just get enough to make growing a lousy business decision. Unlike chemical agents the fungus is a parasite and thus persistent.

No society has ever successfully endured unrestricted opiate use. Right now its number one victim is the Iranian economy. It’s just impossible to let such damage occur.

Let’s start with the easy stuff and see what happens.