Sex work should be completely decriminalized. Ditto drugs.
if you want to argue against bad regulations or over-regulation than argue against that. I don't see why we should have a grey-market for things that ought to be legal though.
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Decriminialization turns them into white markets. Which is very ironic phrasing when it comes to both of the examples under discussion, I must say.
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a white market would be taxed and regulated, no? decrim is a gray market. technically illegal, but unenforced so done relatively in the open (to whatever the boundaries set by police are).
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but again, what is the argument in favor of decrim instead of legalization? that the regulations for full legalization might be bad? that's a poor argument in my opinion. just raw pessimism.
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In the case of commercial sex, "legalization" refers to laws and regulations permitting it; decriminalization, the absence of laws banning it. Latter case preferable (imo) given likely forms of US legalization
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is this different than the way the terminology is used w.r.t drug policy? I've never seen it used the way you're describing. Decrim means "still technically illegal, and subject to change at a whim, but for now the police ignore it"
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I have to say Dan's understanding is closer to my own. e.g. MJ decriminalization does not mean McWeed is legal.
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Interesting, the meaning of decriminalization that I've encountered is "it's not criminal anymore" so basically the explanation eigenrobot gave
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Now that it comes up, I've heard both used, in both contexts. It's very confusing and a lot of the terminology is agenda-driven.
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