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If you outlaw porn, it'll just go underground and become more worse. Child porn is already illegal, and most municipalities have strict zoning requirements preventing adult video shops from operating. I support that, and so do even most social liberals. Yes, porn is prevalent on the internet, but again even the adult websites have strict guidelines against child porn. You can't stop it from going into someone else's computer even if you banned it. They'll just move off-shore and set up shop there

Blah blah blah. And if you ban abortions there'll be back alley abortions everywhere. And banning pot is bad because it causes crime. Yes yes, I know. How come nobody ever makes the case that LEGALIZING something makes it more prevalent? Look at abortion, homosexuality and pornography. When it became unconstitutional to limit these things they flourished. Yet the pro-pot people think that smoking pot is going to be one exception. They think think that when smoking dope is legalized everywhere it will be a virtual paradise of people smoking dope and being cured of their ills.

When it became unconstitutional to limit these things they flourished. Yet the pro-pot people think that smoking pot is going to be one exception. They think think that when smoking dope is legalized everywhere it will be a virtual paradise of people smoking dope and being cured of their ills.

Well there is this

FTA: "We compared representative samples of experienced marijuana users to see whether the lawful availability of marijuana did, in fact, lead to the problems critics of the Dutch system have claimed," said Reinarman. "We found no evidence that it does. In fact, we found consistently strong similarities in patterns of marijuana use, despite vastly different national drug policies."

Marijuana legalization won't lead to a utopia, but then nothing will. Doesn't mean it isn't something that should be done.

Blah blah blah. And if you ban abortions there'll be back alley abortions everywhere.

Go back and read post #6 again. Trying to lump abortion in with pot and porn is an apples and oranges argument. Furthermore, it's disingenuous because your forcing conservatives to resort to argue in absolutes. Pot and porn isn't as cut-and-dried as abortion is. Just because we oppose abortion doesn't mean pot and porn should be banned too.

And banning pot is bad because it causes crime. Yes yes, I know. How come nobody ever makes the case that LEGALIZING something makes it more prevalent?

But Douglas, pot is very prevalent and it's already illegal. I mean, what are you going to do? Wouldn't it better if it was regulated with strict laws for abuse or buying for minors, education about its use like the "Just Say No?"

Look at abortion, homosexuality and pornography. When it became unconstitutional to limit these things they flourished.

All three have been in existence since our nation's founding. States were permitting abortion even in the 1800s. There was never a time when abortion was completely banned in this country. Of course I'm not advocating it, I'm just saying that the notion of America always being pure and pristine is false.