Baltimore will no longer prosecute drug possession, prostitution and other...
"Baltimore will no longer prosecute drug possession, prostitution and other low-level offenses"
https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/27/us/baltim…
"[Baltimore City State's Attorney Marilyn] Mosby's office, along with Baltimore police and BCRI, will work to support sex workers by partnering with local organizations like SPARC, a center for women in southwest Baltimore, Baltimore Safe Haven and the Baltimore branch of the Sex Workers Outreach Project."
https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/27/us/baltim…
"[Baltimore City State's Attorney Marilyn] Mosby's office, along with Baltimore police and BCRI, will work to support sex workers by partnering with local organizations like SPARC, a center for women in southwest Baltimore, Baltimore Safe Haven and the Baltimore branch of the Sex Workers Outreach Project."
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The article linked to mentions public defecation. Allowing this can quickly lead to deterioration of the pleasantness of public spaces. Prostitutes and drug dealers openly soliciting business falls in the same category. Even if you think prostitution should be legalized as I do, you may not want a hooker hanging around on the sidewalk outside your house trying to drum up business.
Similarly - the sex-industry is referred to as "the oldest profession in the world" for a reason - people are not gonna want to stop buying sex and there will always be those willing to meet that demand similar to drugs.
Adults should be allowed to decide for themselves what they wanna do or not do as long as they are not directly hurting anyone else - the war on drugs and P4P is unwinnable and just criminalizes o/w non-criminal people along with a huge waste of resources and $$$.
This is because all the people who suffer from manageable mental illness that stumble into these drugs will suffer from serious episodes once the damage from the drugs finishes off the last bits of restraint their brains are providing. You're going to have to accept that a person high on drugs who is having any sort of psychotic issue wherein they put a non using citizen in fear for their safety and gets shot by that citizen, the citizen walks away scott free. Do the blood tests after the fact and when you find the presence of the hard drugs you exonerate the citizen. Any other response is just going to unleash a living nightmare on the sober hard working citizens.
It's harsh but ask yourself about how many truly heinous crimes some user will try to weasel out of by claiming "I was high, it wasn't my fault". That's a not a society you want to live in.
No on is saying that other criminal acts associated with drugs (e.g. burglary; DUI; etc) should not be penalized like it's done today for alcohol, and even marijuana where it's legal.
When I watch TV shows on drugs at times they show the incredible mark-up in price from where it is produced to when it's finally in the U.S. (often over 1000% if I remember correctly) - one would assume making the drugs legal would bring down the price significantly and perhaps cut-down on illegal activities/crimes in order to get the $$$ for the supa-marked-up illegal drugs.
I don't necessarily buy that making drugs (or P4P) legal that it means we will then be flooded w/ it - cigarettes are legal and have been in decline - the $$$ saved on the war-on-drugs can be more effectively used for treatment and education - I don't think making drugs legal would make a whole bunch of people decide to become drug-users particularly hardcore drugs - I don't think making drugs illegal has been that much of a deterrent nor has their been a significant decrease in use.
Drugs are a different story. I've never heard from people overdosing on cigarettes. You can drink yourself to death, sure, but it takes a lot of effort. I cannot think of any set of circumstances or legal framework where you can legalize cocaine, heroine, crack, meth, fentanyl, etc. People in Florida who can not or do not get medical marijuana cards just buy it illegally, as is done with scheduled prescription drugs. I have never heard of people mugging strangers, burgling residences, breaking into vehicles, etc. to fund a cigarette addiction.
Look at what a fucking filthy cesspool Baltimore is. Look at how California has fallen from the Golden State to failed socialist quasi-republic. Nightly riots in Portland. Spiraling violent crime in New York. Bankrupt idiocracy of Detroit. Business as usual 1,000+ annual murders in Chicago. When are people going to pull their heads out of their asses and realize that democrats, liberals, and communists are all the same and all fucking unfit to govern?
Low level?? Whether or not you think these activities should be legal these are very serious activities.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/uncategorized/5…
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-50…
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-nethe…
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Will this be a good thing for Baltimore city strip clubs and the block?
The Block is next to Police HQ and was already a look the other way situation so long as tourists stayed safe and shit wasn't in the streets. Other clubs (RIP Players Club) had UHM with nice talent even after the crackdown a decade or so back, but maybe they'll be easier to find now in higher end clubs.
And Mosby didn’t say anything about decriminalizing “possession with intent to distribute” or whatever the legal term is for “running a house of ill-repute”.
I don’t anticipate most club’s tacit policy on ITC extras in Baltimore City to change too much.