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Bill: Harmful Substances Control Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: New Conservatives
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 2529
Description[?]:
This Act will outlaw all those 'recreational' drugs that are proven to cause severe damage to the human body. |
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 | 18:53:31, February 08, 2008 CET | From | New Conservatives | To | Debating the Harmful Substances Control Act |
Message | By banning these substances, life expectancy will improve, our healthcare system will have fewer costs to contend with, and people will become more economically productive. |
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Voting
Vote | Seats | ||||
yes |
Total Seats: 70 | ||||
no | Total Seats: 196 | ||||
abstain |
Total Seats: 267 |
Random fact: Any RP law granting extraordinary "emergency powers" or dictator-like powers to a government must be passed by at least a 2/3rds majority, but (like all RP laws) may always be overturned by a simple majority vote of the legislature. |
Random quote: "We cannot acknowledge allegiance to any human government... Our country is the world, our countrymen are all mankind." - William Lloyd Garrison |