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Bill: Drug Ban
Details
Submitted by[?]: Unified National Party
Status[?]: defeated
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: December 2445
Description[?]:
| Recreational Drugs are a plight on our society. They can seriously and adversely affect the physical and mental wellbeing of our citizens, and they'll become lazy, uncontributive members of our nation. There are many other ways for one to spend their time if bored which are perfectly healthy and legal. In the end all recreational drugs only have negative consequences. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The recreational drug policy.
Old value:: There are no laws regulating what citizens can put into their bodies.
Current: The use of cannabis is legal.
Proposed: Recreational drug use is forbidden.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 15:41:40, August 21, 2007 CET | From | People's Communist Party | To | Debating the Drug Ban |
| Message | Having seen the effects of the misguided and disasterous 'wars on drugs' that have been waged by other nations, the PSP thinks our policy on this issue should not be changed. As we have pointed out before, banning something will not make it go away, however much the zealous religious parties want to believe that is true. |
| Date | 15:44:32, August 21, 2007 CET | From | Enlightened Cosmic Brotherhood | To | Debating the Drug Ban |
| Message | You may as well ban other mind altering and potentially intelligence wasting substances. Bibles, Crucifixs, Churches.... No. This is oppression pure and simple. The War on Drugs doesn't work, and people have the right to choose. |
| Date | 16:21:37, August 21, 2007 CET | From | CSA Communist Party of the DPRK | To | Debating the Drug Ban |
| Message | if you ban it, you WONT STOP PPL.I agree the goverment should run rehab BUT COMPLETLY VOLENTRL,Y AND NOT IILEGAL TO TAKE DRUGS |
| Date | 18:30:57, August 21, 2007 CET | From | Feathercreek Ecological Partnership | To | Debating the Drug Ban |
| Message | This is insane. People will get their hands on drugs, whether they're illegal or not. We can still discourage our citizens with ad campaigns and classes in schools, but to suggest we should let some shady back alley "entrepreneurs" sell our citizens potentially harmful substances is insanity. Besides, you can always tax goods that are unhealthy or harmful to our populace, just look at tobacco. You propose to take a problem and a revenue source and replace it with a bigger problem and a nightmare in police funding that we wouldn't otherwise need. A definitive no on this one. |
| Date | 20:49:55, August 21, 2007 CET | From | Freedom Party | To | Debating the Drug Ban |
| Message | very good bill and we accept. |
| Date | 00:51:29, August 22, 2007 CET | From | Christian Nationalist Front | To | Debating the Drug Ban |
| Message | The CNF is proud to support a bill that will help curb the side effects of drugs in our society. Obviously Democracy Now cares little for the people of Al'Badara, simply stating that they should decide for themselves when they are addicted to an abusive drug. Obviously the members of DN think that stopping the use of drugs is just like flicking the switch for a light bulb. This is not oppression, in fact this is a step in the right direction to help solve the drug issue. By out lawing drugs and providing rehabilitation facilities we can start curbing addiction and the problems associated with drug use. |
| Date | 01:34:47, August 22, 2007 CET | From | Feathercreek Ecological Partnership | To | Debating the Drug Ban |
| Message | Who was against rehabilitation? Everyone seems to believe drug use is a problem, but nobody really knows the solution, except to continue to discourage use and try to help those who are addicted. Who knows what harmful ingredients drug dealers put in their narcotics to make them cheaper to manufacture? Drug use is like a virus, and it will slip through any wall you put in place to stop it. |
| Date | 03:23:59, August 22, 2007 CET | From | Enlightened Cosmic Brotherhood | To | Debating the Drug Ban |
| Message | "Obviously the members of DN think that stopping the use of drugs is just like flicking the switch for a light bulb. " No. It's not. Which is why banning it WON'T DO A DAMN THING. You tell people they can't use something that could be harmful, you may as well ban guns, knives, pencils, ideas, religion, child birth, sex..the list goes on. You say that drugs are horrible and dangerous. People have self control. Not all do. Yes, some abuse them. Just like certain parties abuse religion and bend it to their own will, and abuse power to control people. There already are rehab clinics. People are going to use drugs no matter what, and better they be safe and clean then from some toothless weirdo in a back alley. Making drug use illegal is pointless and stops nothing. It only increases fear, paranoia, police powers, and jail population numbers. No! They're smoking a join! NEXT THEY'LL BE DANCING! |
| Date | 12:31:16, August 22, 2007 CET | From | Christian Nationalist Front | To | Debating the Drug Ban |
| Message | Banning drugs will help. Right now any can walk into a shop and buy drugs legally. By making it illegal and removing the substance from shops you will make a huge reduction in the number of drug users. By also prosecuting individuals who sell drugs we will further limit drug use by cracking down on the individual. By doing that we will increase the cost of drugs and as a result it will become much harder to distribute the substances. Perhaps we won’t see instantaneous results, but over the years we will see a gradual shift from more drug use to less drug use. The right of choice is being influenced by undesirables who subject the youth to peer pressure when it comes to drugs. Programs must be put in place to curb this as well as the outlawing of drugs. Of course Democracy Now would rather let things stay as they are, what difference will it make they say, well the difference is clear - drugs will be harder to find and buy and less new people will be influenced by drugs. With a positive television campaign, radio campaign and the outlawing of drugs we can reduce drug usage over time to a new low. The CNF understands that it won’t be possible to completely stop people from taking drugs but this law will certainly make it harder. It’s a shame that Democracy Now can’t get over the fact that other people practice religious faith and believe in God. Perhaps when DN stop bringing up personal matters in bills, over on its stance religion, especially when religion had not been mentioned at all, people will take them more seriously. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes | Total Seats: 34 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 46 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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