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Bill: Medical Marijuana Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: New Democratic Party
Status[?]: passed
Votes: This is an ordinary bill. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: October 2038
Description[?]:
| WHEREAS cannabis has been shown to have beneficial health effects when properly administered, and, BELIEVING that the health benefits of the drug are compelling enough to allow its use in medicine, NOW THEREFORE, cannabis is hereby legalised for medical use. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The use of cannabis for medicinal purposes.
Old value:: The medicinal use of cannabis is illegal.
Current: Cannabis is legal as a sedative for patients in pain.
Proposed: Cannabis is legal as a sedative for patients in pain.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | not recorded | From |  Socialist Party of Ikradon | To | Debating the Medical Marijuana Act |
| Message | The Socialist Party opposes this bill. Drugs - alcohol included - is not something that we want to encourage our citizens to use. |
| Date | not recorded | From | Democratic Socialist Party | To | Debating the Medical Marijuana Act |
| Message | It would be nice if representatives of the NDP could offer some scientific facts to support this act. We are slightly leaning towards supporting the bill, but feel we can't do it without having some facts to support. |
| Date | not recorded | From | Progressive Pragmatists | To | Debating the Medical Marijuana Act |
| Message | The Secular Democratic Party supports the use of Cannabis for medical purposes. It is a pain-killer with proven benefits that has few if any of the side-affects of industrial pain-killers... |
| Date | not recorded | From | Progressive Evolution Party | To | Debating the Medical Marijuana Act |
| Message | PEP's in support, etc. |
| Date | not recorded | From | New Democratic Party | To | Debating the Medical Marijuana Act |
| Message | Medical cannabis has had some beneficial effects for people suffering from glaucoma and multiple sclerosis, among others, I cannot remember all. http://www.letfreedomgrow.com/index_se_cmu.htm has a good bunch of links. |
| Date | not recorded | From | Democratic Socialist Party | To | Debating the Medical Marijuana Act |
| Message | Thank you for the link. We too support this act. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 67 | ||||
| no | Total Seats: 33 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: Particracy has been running since 2005. Dorvik was Particracy's first nation, the Dorvik Social Democrats the first party and the International Greens the first Party Organisation. |
| Random quote: "Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. Moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue." - Barry Goldwater |