Thats one for the books, but your response should be even better, so...please explain to me all of the BENEFITS OF A RECOGNIZED LABOR REGULATION that aamp girls receive? This will be major news, i'm sure. I worked with major unions for almost 15 years, and I sure do see an awful lot of labor benefits (basically, all!) that do not pertain in any shape, form or fashion to aamps. the floor is yours.

peternorth, i always enjoyed your wonderful posts confronting all the games on here and getting to the 'bottom' of things. this is yet another example of bottom line, how do we feel about this we are participating in without all of the childish games. The shills must hate you but i don't think you care because you are tough enough to deal with them and maintain your brave position.

Thanks for such a neat poll.

"If it's paid, it's not true. It's fantasy."

Perhaps he meant that, his exact quote seemed to state it as fact. And i'm not aware of a single labor movement protection that aamp girls officially enjoy. I am not arguing that they should have any labor benefits, as I believe tax free dollars in return for risky frowned upon by the law & society job is an equal trade. But if he is claiming that they actually do, I am all ears.

"If it's paid, it's not true. It's fantasy."

Yes, that is true. He said aamp, I just wanted to hear how that works lol!

That's what posts here are for. You are entitled to express your views however you like here.

It's a forum for open and diverse debate, adversarial, to hear dissenting views from various perspectives.

Anyone who is interested in explaining a "NO" answer here, in this forum, do so in a post.

There is no way i could cover all the No choices in limited spaces. Plus, this is a Monger's board. So the prevailing attitude, i assume, is pro-prostitution, or pro-legalization.

NO, I'm concerned about AAMP customers hanging out in front of my building until 3 am every night

NO, I'm worried about massage parlors popping up next to my kid's elementary school

NO, there are already too many strong-arm robberies at AAMPs

NO, there are already too many Viet gangsters and too much drug use at storefront AMPs

NO, legalization will not stop street pimps from turning out 13 year old girls in Oakland and the Mission District

When you post a skewed poll like this, it just makes everyone think you have a hidden agenda. My advice is to have the mods delete it and do it right the next time.

Why don't we have the mods include that? I don't think peternorth was trying to appeal to the no answers, after all, this is basically a 'for' or 'against' legalization poll really.

after all, aren't we a hypocrite if we engage in this and vote 'no'?

everyone knows they don't want this near children, and but to not want it because it might pop up near my child's elementary school is ridiculous, because legalization would mean gov't regulating this industry and issuing licenses.

so this poll is correct in really masking it in a way that it's really 'yes' or 'no'.

It's ridiculous how morally high-horse and egonuts some of you are in here. Yet many of you are cheating on your wifes and such.

"If it's paid, it's not true. It's fantasy."

I WOULD MOST ENJOY:

A. Sending one dollar to AMPFan

B. Having my eyeballs plucked out by crazed seagulls

Most respondents would choose A, but you won't see me planning my retirement around the proceeds.

Brothels would encourage more pimping? That is very interesting....sort of like all of the organized crime alcohol bootlegers that have been terrorizing the nation ever since they ended prohibition & you can now buy alcohol in every store? Legalization puts outlaws out of business. Prohibition makes outlaws flourish & get rich. It's not a hard concept to grasp.

Now your idea of legalizing it, not regulating it at all, and hoping to recover what little taxes you can get people to be honest about reporting......that's gonna really help everybody on all levels!

But if you take a look at place like Amsterdam, where both are legalized, what you actually find are places with ridiculously low crime rates. A good deal of that is the simple logic that if a high percentage of crime is lame arrests to do with victimless crimes like weed & prostitution, and now you subtract all those arrest by process of eliminating those laws, your crime rate is lower. But it is also proof that allowing people these forbidden activities does not turn them into wildly out of control people, because no other crimes go up, they all stay low or nonexistent. Granted, Americans are different than other people, particularly when it comes to criminalism, but I cant see how more weed in the general public can lead to any more crimes. It liable to make a lot of potential criminals too lazy and unmotivated to perpetrate what they might otherwise!

What kind of profits would the cities & states be looking at? I don't know, I don't think anybody does but I think we all know that it would be off the charts. I would have to think that if either of the two, weed or prostitution, on it's own was made available with ease in every city, at every hour, as long as you were a legal adult with id....the income from taxes on just one of the two would change the entire financial landscape that the country is facing now. And you know what? The startup & upkeep of either business for the government would be less out of pocket dollars than law enforcement to contain them is currently costing them. It's mind boggling that a society in 2010 would not automatically be doing this!

There are no rational arguements against it. "The bible says..." ok, take your nursey stories away, I want valid reasons based in reality. Dont try to tell me what the easter bunny feels about it next.

"Prostitution brings so much ugly crime to neighborhoods" Because you outlaw it, and bring pimps & other unsavory aspects of humanity into the equation. Your laws are what ravage neighborhoods. If prostituion happened safely under the roof and behind the doors of a place that you santioned, only an idiot would go out in the Tenderloin looking for a hooker to save a few dollars & not have to get a current id in his wallet. If you santion legal prostitution correctly, illegal prostitution disappears 100%. If you do it halfass like Nevada, it's still a worlds better situation for everybody, but illegal still exists, it's just the craigslist level down.

"Marijuana is so bad for you" Do people even try this arguement anymore? I'm not sure, if they do, they look mighty foolish. Look into it, do your research. Pot is not proven to do any harm to you, except for take chunks out of your motivation to excel, and if you have a good drive to begin with you can work around that. Health issues with pot are more positive than negative, and it is 1000% better for your body than alcohol, cigaretts or even caffeine for that matter.

There ya go, I rapidly ran out of any reasons to even argue the other side. It's win/win. To not legalize is stoooopid. Put a lock on this thread, because that's the bottom line.

I actually like things the way they are except for the LE enforcement and occasional busts. Decriminalize?