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Bill: Healthy Society Bill
Details
Submitted by[?]: Green Socialist 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: November 2469
Description[?]:
| A Bill to reduce the destructive impact of drugs on the individual and society, by rendering the use of the most dangerous elements illegal; thereby discouraging their use and attractiveness to the general public. |
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: Alcoholic beverages may be purchased only from licensed sales outlets, and can only be available to adults.
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: Recreational drug use is forbidden.
Article 3
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: There are certain restrictions on the sale of tobacco and only adults may purchase tobacco.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 07:15:30, October 11, 2007 CET | From |  Green Socialist Party | To | Debating the Healthy Society Bill |
| Message | Open for debate and discussion. |
| Date | 12:51:26, October 11, 2007 CET | From | CSA Communist Party of the DPRK | To | Debating the Healthy Society Bill |
| Message | keep the goverment out of my body pleae |
| Date | 00:44:23, October 12, 2007 CET | From | Green Socialist Party | To | Debating the Healthy Society Bill |
| Message | If there is no need for further debate, I will put this Bill to vote in an online month... |
| Date | 04:30:08, October 12, 2007 CET | From | Demokratisk Pacifist Partiet | To | Debating the Healthy Society Bill |
| Message | By banning recreational drugs, you only create a black market that causes more crime and suffering than you would have if said drugs were legal. Furthermore, the government has no right to tell people what they can and cannot put in their own bodies. |
| Date | 04:59:54, October 12, 2007 CET | From | Green Socialist Party | To | Debating the Healthy Society Bill |
| Message | So by that token, would your party members appreciate their sons and daughters legally experimenting with heroin, cocaine and crystal meth, and being told by doctors and social workers that there's nothing they can do because they're legal substances? Making drugs illicit recognises the dangers and harm they create, creates legal avenues to punish pushers and drug cartels that profit from such misery, and allows rehabilitation and medical services to be set up that have the power to take people off their addiction. In a way, making drug use illegal gives the state the power to step in and force positive changes, that it really can't if it's fighting legal drug use. |
| Date | 05:01:08, October 12, 2007 CET | From | Green Socialist Party | To | Debating the Healthy Society Bill |
| Message | Furthermore, I will remind my fellow parties that a single law rectifying our lack of alcohol and tobacco age limits is well overdue, and would encourage you to pass this Bill if only for that reason (and for subsequent revision of the drug use Article if so desired.) |
| Date | 19:14:54, October 12, 2007 CET | From | Pertetuum Kazulia | To | Debating the Healthy Society Bill |
| Message | I agree brother. The chains of drugs are a burden on all. |
| Date | 21:17:39, October 12, 2007 CET | From | Science and Environment Party | To | Debating the Healthy Society Bill |
| Message | We agree on article 1 but think that article 2 is an invasion of privacy and civil rights from the government. It can never play the role of parent to the our adult citizens. We believe coffee is a recreational drug and we would never be for prohibitiing intake of it. |
| Date | 22:00:40, October 12, 2007 CET | From | Democratic Socialist Movement | To | Debating the Healthy Society Bill |
| Message | I totally agree to this... It is the governments responsibility to protect the health and well being of our citizens... If you allow this to happen you don't care about the people |
| Date | 22:02:33, October 12, 2007 CET | From | Democratic Socialist Movement | To | Debating the Healthy Society Bill |
| Message | Also you actually think its fine to kill yourselves and our people... By making this legal all your doing is putting power into greedy cartels who care nothing for the lives of the customers more about there own wealth... Drugs destroy people there lives minds and souls... I am disgusted with all of you who support legal drugs. |
| Date | 10:56:50, October 13, 2007 CET | From | Science and Environment Party | To | Debating the Healthy Society Bill |
| Message | How could you be disgusted with us who support legal drugs? They are legal of a reason I suppose, and that reason just as our laws are a part of the societies history culture and experience. What gives you the right to judge and decide what is right or wrong in that matter. We agree that harmful drugs should be under supervision and control but decisions on what is harmfull and how harmful it is should be based on facts provided by experts and based well proven science. Not on political winds and sudden opinions. You also have to define what you mean by drugs, it can also mean medicine. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes | Total Seats: 199 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 460 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 91 |
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