With some issues, you can’t just jump right into the pool. You have to ease in a little at a time.
For example, we couldn’t go straight to constitutional carry. We had to ease into it, by first having shall-issue licensing.
We couldn’t go straight to legal weed. We had to ease into it first, by having medical marijuana, and then decriminalized pot.
A friend (who is a former state representative) just called me to tell me that, according to his sources at the statehouse, the state is planning to start selling marijuana at the state liquor stores.
My friend was laughing because years ago, during an audience with His Excellency, he proposed that the state liquor stores should sell liquor, sell marijuana, and offer prostitution. His Excellency was shocked… and yet, here we are, two-thirds of the way there.
What’s missing for prostitution is an intermediate step, comparable to shall-issue carry licenses and medical marijuana. Why not medical prostitution? Or, since legislators seem to like alliteration, medical magdalenism. (This has the added advantage that many legislators might vote for it without having any idea what it means.)
Magdalenism can be used to alleviate many of the conditions (such as depression and anxiety) that are now treated with pharmaceuticals, without any of the dangers of addiction or overdose or government mandates, and (with oversight by the state) a greatly reduced danger of the transmission of certain diseases.
Imagine how it would work. You’d go to your doctor, who would tell you that you need to get laid. He’d write you a prescription, and you’d drop by the state liquor store to fill it. And maybe pick up a fifth of bourbon and a bag of sativa gummies on your way out the door.
Or maybe you’d get a medical magdalenism card, which would authorize a certain number of visits over a certain period of time.
Look, it’s going to happen. The state is leaving too much money on the table to ignore this opportunity to transmute a punishable crime into a taxable vice. Why not get started on it sooner, rather than later?
