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Bill: Helping Ordinary People End Suffering (HOPES) Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: SocLib '82
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 2493
Description[?]:
| Crack cocaine, heroin, and crystal meth are all examples of drugs that are artificially made with severe and widespread negative effects on Hutorians across the nation. These harmful drugs are responsible for rampant death and disease and HIV is made more accessible to those that inject to get a high. SocLib '82 feels that naturally occurring drugs, such as cannabis and rooms are acceptable because while they produce sensational highs and disorientation, they are relatively easy to regulate and are not necessarily addictive. We should make it easier and cheaper for people to acquire naturally occurring drugs and force the prices of other drugs through the roof to make them inaccessible, and use the proposed HLR5 billion boost to the Health and Social Services budget to rehabilitate users of harmful, artificial drugs. This bill should increase productivity and hopefully lower unemployment for the population. We should at least give it a try for the sake of our populace, and most importantly, the next generation of Hutorians. The HOPES Act will revolutionize Hutori for the better. |
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: All naturally occurring drugs are legal.
Proposed: All naturally occurring drugs are legal.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 03:58:25, November 28, 2007 CET | From | SocLib '82 | To | Debating the Helping Ordinary People End Suffering (HOPES) Act |
| Message | Any questions or objections? |
| Date | 09:18:29, November 28, 2007 CET | From | "Le Chaim" - Aesthetic Party | To | Debating the Helping Ordinary People End Suffering (HOPES) Act |
| Message | Agreed |
| Date | 14:24:19, November 28, 2007 CET | From | Royalist Confederacy | To | Debating the Helping Ordinary People End Suffering (HOPES) Act |
| Message | Why do you want to regualte what citizens put into their bodies? Why do you want mafia to control unnaturally produced drugs? |
| Date | 15:25:03, November 28, 2007 CET | From | CSA Democratic Socialist Party of Hutori | To | Debating the Helping Ordinary People End Suffering (HOPES) Act |
| Message | If we ban them, they'll just go get them other places which will actually increase crime in Hutori and why should we be able to tell people what they can and cannot put in their bodies? |
| Date | 17:24:59, November 28, 2007 CET | From | SocLib '82 | To | Debating the Helping Ordinary People End Suffering (HOPES) Act |
| Message | To think that we should allow people to destroy their own lives by not having a say on the issue of drug use is ludicrous. SocLib '82 supports personal freedoms but we do NOT believe in sacrificing public health at the expense of civil liberty. We are proposing extensive rehabilitation programs to curb the use of hard drugs. Sure, some will seek them through another route but if they are caught, they are to be placed in rehab centers rather than jail. Mafias will be cracked down on and also rehabilitated. We cannot promise full success but there is a need for health in our nation to improve, and this is one step we can take to do that. |
| Date | 18:35:18, November 28, 2007 CET | From | Royalist Confederacy | To | Debating the Helping Ordinary People End Suffering (HOPES) Act |
| Message | It's simply outrageous - you will hand drug market to the organised crime groups. No WAR on drugs. |
| Date | 23:51:27, November 28, 2007 CET | From | SocLib '82 | To | Debating the Helping Ordinary People End Suffering (HOPES) Act |
| Message | We aren't planning on waging a WAR on drugs, we simply want to curb its use. We're surprised to see the Royalist Confederacy have such a libertarian position on this issue, considering the fact that millions of families are ripped apart by drug use every year. |
| Date | 07:08:48, November 29, 2007 CET | From | Hizb al-Ga'ra al-Islamiyya | To | Debating the Helping Ordinary People End Suffering (HOPES) Act |
| Message | We agree, in fact we would push for more. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 142 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 159 | ||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 0 |
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