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Bill: GJA Drugs - 10.23.2561.AD
Details
Submitted by[?]: New Socialist Agenda
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: June 2562
Description[?]:
| "It is the choice of the citizens. Their bodies belong to them. Who are we to tell them what they can and can't buy?" -Raamiah Galgenstrick, Chairman of the GJA Foreign Minister of the SJHB |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The recreational drug policy.
Old value:: Recreational drug use is forbidden.
Current: Recreational drug use is regulated by local governments.
Proposed: There are no laws regulating what citizens can put into their bodies.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 14:03:56, April 16, 2008 CET | From | Jewish Mothers' Union | To | Debating the GJA Drugs - 10.23.2561.AD |
| Message | This is a truly appalling piece of legislation. Have the GJA no sense of social responsibility at all? Melanie Koffenbaum (Leader of the JMU) |
| Date | 16:25:37, April 16, 2008 CET | From | New Socialist Agenda | To | Debating the GJA Drugs - 10.23.2561.AD |
| Message | "Have the JMU no sense of liberty and PERSONAL responsibility? And there is no such thing as social responsibility." -Raamiah Galgenstrick, Chairman of the GJA Foreign Minister of the SJHB |
| Date | 19:15:23, April 16, 2008 CET | From | HaLeumit Tikvah | To | Debating the GJA Drugs - 10.23.2561.AD |
| Message | "A drug addict has no sense of personal responsibility. They will see it as your responsibilty to fund their addiction." -Gilad Lifschitz, HaLeumit Tikvah Chairman |
| Date | 19:18:23, April 16, 2008 CET | From | New Socialist Agenda | To | Debating the GJA Drugs - 10.23.2561.AD |
| Message | "That's why we don't fund their addiction. No one says we have to. Health insurance companies will automatically exclude drug-related expenses. And when I said personal responsibility, I was referring to BEFORE they become addicts, they must have the responsibility to not get into drugs, and if they do get addicted, it is their own faults, and they must find their ways out themselves (or come to psychological rehabilitation at GXH-5328, who will cure them and charge them a low-interest delayed-payment loan to pay for the treatment expenses)." -Raamiah Galgenstrick, Chairman of the GJA Foreign Minister of the SJHB |
| Date | 19:23:04, April 16, 2008 CET | From | HaLeumit Tikvah | To | Debating the GJA Drugs - 10.23.2561.AD |
| Message | "Or continue their addiction by stealing from hard-working citizens? The reality is that banning drugs allows us to stop theft and assault before it s commited." -Gilad Lifschitz, HaLeumit Tikvah Chairman |
| Date | 19:25:42, April 16, 2008 CET | From | New Socialist Agenda | To | Debating the GJA Drugs - 10.23.2561.AD |
| Message | "No, actually it doesn't. Banning drugs does two things that increase crime: (1) It artificially inflates the prices because all trading must be done on the black market under heavy personal risk and with great expenses to grow, smuggle, and hide drugs, and (2) it opens an area of illegal merchandise, which, as you know, organized crime will capitalize on because the specialty of organized crime is working in the black market. If drugs weren't banned, they would be on the open market, and they would be handled by reputable corporations, not organized crime. |
| Date | 19:26:08, April 16, 2008 CET | From | New Socialist Agenda | To | Debating the GJA Drugs - 10.23.2561.AD |
| Message | ..." -Raamiah Galgenstrick, Chairman of the GJA Foreign Minister of the SJHB |
| Date | 19:29:36, April 16, 2008 CET | From | New Socialist Agenda | To | Debating the GJA Drugs - 10.23.2561.AD |
| Message | "I forgot to explain, but when the prices are artificially inflated, that causes the drug addicts to resort to crime to fuel their addictions because the prices are too high to fuel with a low-wage, dead-end job that doesn't care about their addiction. But in the open market, the inconvenience of dealing through the black market does not raise the prices. Also, black markets create drug cartels and monopolies, so that prices are artificially inflated because it is an addictive product. This cannot happen in the open market. In fact, many countries, not including our own, have to actually regulate a minimum price for tobacco products because competition brings the prices so low. Some countries ban smoking, and the price of tobacco products is extremely high. People resort to crime to fuel their nicotine addictions just as a cocaine addict does in our country now." -Raamiah Galgenstrick, Chairman of the GJA Foreign Minister of the SJHB |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes | Total Seats: 160 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 197 | ||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 43 |
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