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Bill: DLA Cannabis Reform
Details
Submitted by[?]: Loyalistische Partei
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: August 2525
Description[?]:
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Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The use of cannabis for medicinal purposes.
Old value:: Cannabis is legal as a sedative for patients in pain.
Current: The medicinal use of cannabis is illegal.
Proposed: The medicinal use of cannabis is illegal.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 18:36:10, January 31, 2008 CET | From | Loyalistische Partei | To | Debating the DLA Cannabis Reform |
| Message | There are drugs for pain that won't make you high. |
| Date | 18:56:58, January 31, 2008 CET | From | New-Revolutionary Communist Party (NRCP) | To | Debating the DLA Cannabis Reform |
| Message | It's not just a case of painkilling - the antiemetic properties of Cannabis are useful and almost unique in the way they deal with natural toxins that are produced by the body trying to tackle illnesses. To quote from a British research paper on the effects of Chemo Therapy on cancer patients; "Cannabis can be used as an antiemetic, a drug which relieves nausea and allows patients to eat and live normally. Despite great advances in the last few years of antiemetic research, cannabis is safer, cheaper and often more effective than standard synthetic antiemetics." Lots of prescription drugs - even the majority non-prescription medication - can be, and are used for recreational purposes. Whilst the NRCP does not implicitly support the legalisation of Cannabis as a recreational drug, would you ban steroid-based painkillers, or cough syrup containing codeine? Even the use of morphine as a (last ditch) painkiller? Consider this also; if people believe that they can be helped medically by the use of cannabis, and their doctor agrees, then they can be helped by it. Why add to the crime figures by forcing people with legitimate medicinal intentions to turn to a black market to obtain a pharmaceutical they once relied on? |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||||
| yes | Total Seats: 108 | ||||||
| no |
Total Seats: 192 | ||||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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