Prostitution is somewhat questionable in my mind, I think it is going to be a problem whether its legal or not. Either way there's going to be a spread of sexually transmitted diseases. It can be argued that if legalized it would just be less of a hassle, but you can't be sure it wont pose adverse effects. Drug use I do think should be legalized, but only to a certain extent . Drug legalization would free up police resources to fight crimes against people and property. It would also help unclog our court system. Legal drugs would also be safer. Because it is illegal, the drug trade today lacks many of the consumer safety features common to other markets: instruction sheets, warning labels, product quality control, manufacturer accountability. Driving it underground makes any product, including drugs, more dangerous than it needs to be. Although the legal drugs will still inevitably be misused by some, and cause injury or death. But I think overall legalizing drugs would save more lives, and more of taxpayers money. Gambling seems harmless enough to me, I think it should be legalized, but regulated of course.
             I think the standard for what's considered a crime is based solely on the simple concept of right and wrong. I think people have a fairly similar idea of what's right and wrong, and most of our laws I believe reflect this concept. I think its safe to say there are few laws that are considered completely unreasonable. Our government essentially controls the standard, but the idea is crafted from the people's voice. The reasoning for our standards I believe is a compilation of religion, safety, and the premise of what we think is evil. The impact some of these crimes have are quite major. Drug use is a huge problem, it promotes violent crimes in various ways, through organized crime syndicates, and people doing crazy things because they're baked out of their minds. Prostitution seem...