I have always advocated the legalisation of both drugs and prostitution.
For far too long, society has taken its prurient attitudes to these two aspects of life, with increasingly expensive and pointless attempts to police them.
As a society, contrary to the perceived wisdom of successive governments, we do not have a choice about whether or not we have drugs and prostitution. What we do have is a choice about how we regulate and control them.
Controlled drug use exists in our society, and has done for hundreds of years - but it's just the 'acceptable' drugs, tobacco and alcohol, which are now woven into our culture.
Yes drugs bring issues, but most aspects of society bring issues.
The way forward is not to act as though those issues mean that we should attempt to pretend that we can stop them existing because we adopt a Heavens-to-Betsie's Victorian morality attitude.
It's time to grow up, accept that drugs are here to stay, the money wasted every year on the utterly futile 'war on drugs' can be better spent in proper regulation, control, and education, which is the way more civilised countries seem to be approaching their acceptance that drugs are not going to go away just because we decide they are 'bad' for us.