Marijuana legality?

[VAMatt]

SvennoJ said:

VAMatt said:

All drugs should be completely legal. Regulation does more harm than good, and taxation is theft. So I can't get behind those things.

Prostitution should be completely legal as well. 

There are no victims with any of these things, therefore they are not crimes by any reasonable definition. 

Err, without regulation, making prostitution legal will cause plenty victims. Regulation has made the porn industry safer and reduced victims.
As for drugs, big pharma and big tobacco would love to sell you drugs without regulations.
Taxation pays for regulation.

How would you keep capitalism in check without regulation?

I lived in the Netherlands around the time prostitution was legalized. Heavily regulated, with positive effects.

Dutch cities that regulate prostitution in dedicated areas see a dramatic decline in rapes and sexual assaults, a new study finds. Proponents of legalizing prostitution argue that by regulating the flesh trade, sex workers are better protected.

https://journalistsresource.org/politics-and-government/legal-prostitution-reduce-rape-holland/

You've likely conflated correlation with causation. Almost certainly, the reduction in problems is related to the legalization, not the regulation.  I can't prove a negative, but common sense tells me it is likely the case. 

I have no interest in keeping capitalism in check with government. That's not really even possible. In all of the developed world, government and business are one and the same.  In many cases, it is literally the same people. In others, the people differ, but the locus of control does not.  It's like saying the police should investigate themselves (something we hear a lot about in the US lately).  It doesn't make any sense.

Regulation causes consumers to not look out for themselves as well as they should, as they mistakenly believe that government is doing it for them. I understand the concept of regulation being a good thing. But, in practice, regulation causes problems, it doesn't solve them.