Southfield attorney Geoffrey Fieger said last year that he'd like to run for mayor of Detroit. This week, he changed his mind but offered a glimpse at what the city might look like if he were in charge.

Fieger, former Democratic nominee for Michigan governor, has never been one to shy away from controversial or bold ideas. But beyond his usual bluster, Fieger's suggestions for Detroit are not necessarily as far-out as you might imagine.

Detroit voters

last year, but in a controversial move, the Detroit Election Committee rejected the ballot proposal at the recommendation of the city's Law Department.

The Coalition for a Safer Detroit, a group that pushed the proposal and collected more than 6,000 supporting signatures, argued Detroit police have more pressing concerns that marijuana use.

"In a time of diminishing tax revenue and limited resources, Detroit law enforcement must focus on crimes which have a direct impact upon people and property in the community," read the pitch on

.

Heck, even columnist Nolan Finley of the traditionally-conservative Detroit News recently called for the state of Michigan to legalize pot rather than sort out it's confusing medical marijuana law.

"Give it up. Stop wasting taxpayer money in a futile fight to keep marijuana away from the people who want to use it,"

. "If current trends continue, most pot users will soon have a license to smoke anyway."

Fieger's prostitution proposal would probably be a tougher sell, no matter how mundane the world's oldest profession appears on "Hung." That said, our own Darrell Dawsey

on the topic last year in the wake of the "Miami Companions" bust in Detroit.

"Why should women like this have to run the risk of being attacked and left feeling like they have no legal recourse because they were doing 'illegal" business?'"

. "Why should any of these people have to wear some stain simply because we can't get over our own fake sense of morality about what's obviously a victimless crime? And why shouldn't we be taxing any business that's raking in $4 million?"

Mayor Dave Bing, of course, has his own bold plans for the city. But the Detroit Works Project is more Youngstown than Amsterdam and, to be sure, will not include the legalization of marijuana or prostitution.