"The US puts more people per capita in prisons than any other developed nation. Criminalizing clients will only make this worse - filling our prisons not with rapists and traffickers, but with people entrapped by police posed as sex workers." -Kaytlin Bailey

"Every dollar we spend arresting consensual adults for engaging in consensual sex work, is a dollar not sent pursuing predators." -Kaytlin Bailey

"If the government were to say buying sex is ok, that would unleash market forces similar to how the marijuana market exploded in NY. But women, young people, LGBTQ people - we are not products. You can grow an ethical joint in your backyard, but you cannot grow a person. You

Nothing will ever beat Gene Epstein yelling "Learn some economics Bhaskar!!!" directly to his face

Is Oregon’s drug decriminalization proof that other similar drug legalization efforts are doomed to fail? 🍃💊 Join us for Kevin Sabet vs. Zach Weissmueller, live at The Soho Forum, Oct 21st.

Meet the debaters! 🎤 On Oct 21st at The Soho Forum: ✅ Kevin Sabet — former White House drug policy advisor, Yale adjunct professor, and president of Smart Approaches to Marijuana. ✅ Zach Weissmueller — senior producer at Reason, covering free speech, governance, and drug

Is "legalize recreational cocaine" an unrealistic libertarian fantasy? Dr. Kevin Sabet argues that Oregon’s experiment in decriminalization has shaken this belief to its core. Do you agree? Join us for a debate on this issue on October 21st!

Zach Weissmueller Zach Weissmueller: Oregon re-criminalized drugs not because decriminalization can't work, but because Portland-style governance is broken. Watch the video essay here: youtu.be/vtwXYTmVLro?si…

"If you're a libertarian, the last thing you’d want to do is increase the state's role as much as you would with drugs that are readily available, because once you do that you then have to create the social systems that catch people, you have to fund treatment, fund prevention,

"In Portugal, if you’re caught going to a dissuasion commission, you can’t travel outside the country. They limit who you can interact with. They confiscate some of your personal property, I don’t think that’s what my friends at Reason would be suggesting when they say that

"My worry is that we are going to be - with decriminalization in this country it's tantamount to legalization and we would be, you know, encouraging the use of fentanyl, the use of methamphetamine, the use of crack cocaine, and I don't think that's a good thing - I don't think

"I think you would vote on the yes side if you realize that the way we would be implementing it here in the US would not just be some you know passing law that nobody would take notice of well, “now we've just decriminalized Fentanyl and everyone's going to know exactly what

"If we want to learn from the more pragmatic approaches that we've seen in various European countries, there's nothing inherent to any of these very different European cultures that have done it and the American political system." -Zach Weissmueller on drug decriminalization

Another fiery night at The Soho Forum 🔥 Kevin Sabet of the Drug Policy Institute faced off against reason's Zach Weissmueller on whether Oregon’s drug decriminalization experiment proves broader efforts will fail — and Sabet took home the win. Thanks to everyone who joined