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Bill: Addiction Bill
Details
Submitted by[?]: Pertetuum Kazulia
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: March 2455
Description[?]:
The "drug reform" bill, passing almost certainly unanimously, was a step in the right direction, but I suggest we do not stop there. Our people continue to die and suffer from their addictions, which enslave them to the Tobacco and Alcohol industry. We cannot pay the moral price of sitting back and doing nothing while the chemicals inside these "products of pleasure" chain the people to an addiction they never wished for. In order to have an efficient and strong workforce, we need a healthy and happy workforce. However, many of our Proud Workers are addicted to substances such as tobacco, alcohol and other drugs, which is harmful to their health and life expectancy. If it is harmful to them, it is harmful to the Nation, who depends on her workers. Then there is the argument of drug-taxes. However, the revenue from substance-taxes does not compensate the moral cost of allowing these addicting habits to fell our Peoples and I suggest we outlaw the addictive drugs that numb us: the cancerinducing tobacco; the body-hostile alcohol; all of it. In fact, those tax revenues are an insult: we must not be bribed by the drug-producers who intoxicate our Workers! |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Government policy towards alcoholic beverages.
Old value:: Alcoholic beverages may be purchased only from licensed sales outlets, but consumed by anyone.
Current: Alcoholic beverages may be purchased and consumed anywhere, but only by adults.
Proposed: The sale and consumption of alcoholic beverages is outlawed.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change The recreational drug policy.
Old value:: There are no laws regulating what citizens can put into their bodies.
Current: All naturally occurring drugs are legal.
Proposed: The use of cannabis is legal.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change Government policy towards smoking.
Old value:: Smoking is legal outdoors and in private homes and clubs, but illegal indoors in all places of employment.
Current: Smoking is legal outdoors and in private homes and clubs, but illegal indoors in all places of employment.
Proposed: Smoking is prohibited.
Article 4
Proposal[?] to change Sale of tobacco products.
Old value:: There are certain restrictions on the sale of tobacco products but everyone is allowed to buy them.
Current: Only adults may purchase tobacco.
Proposed: The sale of tobacco products is prohibited.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
Date | 21:04:22, September 12, 2007 CET | From | Green Communist Party of Kazulia | To | Debating the Addiction Bill |
Message | Are you crazy or what? So I can have marihuana but I can't smoke it... very clever! |
Date | 22:17:20, September 12, 2007 CET | From | CSA Communist Party of the DPRK | To | Debating the Addiction Bill |
Message | HOW DARE YOU! keep the govs out of are bodys! if people chocie to spend there life like idiots let them!! |
Date | 01:08:26, September 13, 2007 CET | From | Pertetuum Kazulia | To | Debating the Addiction Bill |
Message | @ Communists: Yes, halucinating drugs can't be outlawed any further at this moment, because of some liberal silly "freedom law"... @ Socialists: We are only concerned with the wellbeing of our fellow countrymen. People don't choose to spend their lives like idiots when the option to do so isn't pushed right into their faces, like it is now. I guess we should ignore the "socialist" part in your party's name. |
Date | 01:49:01, September 13, 2007 CET | From | CSA Communist Party of the DPRK | To | Debating the Addiction Bill |
Message | when they decided to take htat 1st drug sample/sig/we they sead IDK HOW FUCKED UP MY NATION COMES! also socialism is a ECONOMIC sys |
Date | 01:49:14, September 13, 2007 CET | From | CSA Communist Party of the DPRK | To | Debating the Addiction Bill |
Message | my life* |
Date | 01:51:48, September 13, 2007 CET | From | CSA Communist Party of the DPRK | To | Debating the Addiction Bill |
Message | AND FUCK YOU fuckoing consertive capitalist pig, liberalism is not silly, you realise your the only party in this nation that isnt liberal in some way? |
Date | 02:34:01, September 13, 2007 CET | From | Pertetuum Kazulia | To | Debating the Addiction Bill |
Message | My, my, who let such a hotheaded party sit on the seats of power of Kazulia... ooc: Relax, mate... I realize very well what I'm doing. And I would like to commend you on your clever eye. |
Date | 08:05:49, September 13, 2007 CET | From | CSA Communist Party of the DPRK | To | Debating the Addiction Bill |
Message | OCC:im sorry i get mad when i talk bout poltics sorry. |
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Voting
Vote | Seats | ||||
yes | Total Seats: 71 | ||||
no | Total Seats: 400 | ||||
abstain | Total Seats: 279 |
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