Mideast prostitution initiative

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Prostitution Initiative
Section 1: Prostitution shall be legalized in the Mideast region.

Section 2: All prostitutes must be over the age of 21 and must sign a legal statement that their actions are voluntary.

Section 3: All brothels must provide free condoms that meet standards set by regional health authoirites.

Section 4: All borthels are subject to random inspections by regional health authorities.

Section 5: Any brothel in violation of this act shall be shut down immediately and those responsible face fines of up to $50,000 and/or jail terms of up to three years.
There.

[Sam Spade]

Opebo will be happy with the legalization of prostitution initiative, though in order to really not infringe against his freedoms you need to low the legal age to at least 10, preferably 7 or 8.

[Peter]

The Religious Materials Initiative:

Dunno; I'd like to know more about what exactly "religious material" is before I make a decision on this.

The Cannabis Initiative:

Please spell Cannabis correctly.
You realise that one thing you managed not to legalise was smoking the stuff?
Section 3 is incredibly vague to the point of illegalising a lot of everyday activities that even if you were stoned, you could do perfectly normally I imagine, for example, a computer is a type of machine.

Prostitution Initiative:
If I were willing to support this, which I'm not without further regulations, I would have serious qualms about section 3. The Mideast Govt should not surrender its sovereignty to the WHO.

[MasterJedi]

I'm all for the first one.

No on Cannabis and I'd go for the Prostitution one with more regulations.

[Joe Republic]

Sorry to be a stickler for the rules, but under Mideast regional law, you're only allowed to have one initiative petition per thread.  As in my opinion it's probably the best written, I hereby recognize the third one (on prostitution).  Feel free to start a new thread for each of the other two, but I'd strongly recommend rewriting them based on Peter Bell's comments.

[ian]

Again, I will sign it to get it on the ballot, but I plan on voting against it.
X Ian, the Kentuckish-Arkansan

[DanielX]

When I was running for the Mideast, I supported this. I think I'll propose a somewhat modified version of this for the Midwest.

[Sam Spade]

NO

Minnesota is in the Midwest. 

[Peter]

Are you going to do anything about my points concerning Section 3?

If there's a chance that I would vote for it, not allowing the Mideast executive to define applicable standards here completely removes that chance.

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Dean

[opebo]

Yeah, the age limit of 21 is just crazy - I mean who wants a working girl over 21?  But I'll 'sign' this as it is better than complete oppression.

[Peter]

Ballot status help.