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Bill: Drug Restriction Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: National Movement for Civic Democracy
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 2599
Description[?]:
| There are many medicines better than cannabis that can be used to help with pain. Also, drugs like Pot make kids fail school, ruin relationship, open a gateway to harder drugs, and those people become a burden on society. |
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: Cannabis is legal as a sedative for patients in pain.
Proposed: The medicinal use of cannabis is illegal.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change The recreational drug policy.
Old value:: The use of cannabis is legal.
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 | 23:03:54, June 29, 2008 CET | From | Sons of Liberty | To | Debating the Drug Restriction Act |
| Message | We would like to see some proof of your allegations towards drug use, as opposed to buzzword-leiden righteous-fests. Regardless, it is the choice of the user to do such things that may jeopardize scholastics or relationships. If you don't like it, don't do it. Leave its use to those who do want it. |
| Date | 01:57:13, June 30, 2008 CET | From | Dranland First Party (CC) | To | Debating the Drug Restriction Act |
| Message | In the Spenocratic Party's defence, there is an enormous correlation between drug use - especially cannibus use - and unemployment, welfare-dependancy, school truancy, and of course petty crime, etc, in most societies. Cannibus is also undisputedly addictive, and mind-altering in the long-term - it can affect the addict's happiness, leading to depression and lack of motivation, and of course marijuana-psychosis in users who are succeptable. Other harder recreational drugs lead to extreme behavioural disorders, anger problems, skitzophrenia, and also have a high risk of overdose and death. In terms of recreational use, the Reform Party can see no legitimate reason why illicit drugs should remain legal - they are destructive to the individual user, they are destructive to families, they are a plague on neighbourhoods and society in general. No good can come of them, unless the short, artificial surge of happiness or relaxation achieved through drug-use can be called 'good'. In terms of medicinal use, there are indeed many less-addictive pain-killers with minimal side-effects that can replace medicinal marijuana. The only justifications behind allowing recreational drug-use is that it is a 'victimless crime' and that it is somehow the inherant right of every individual to destroy himself if he sees fit, based on abstract ideological philosophies like libertarianism and liberalism. First of all, in regards to the common claim that drugs are a 'victimless crime', this is simply untrue - there is a victim for every crime, and usually there's more than one. In the case of drug-use, whilst the user himself cannot be classified a 'victim' per se, because he bares full responsibility for his own poor decisions and lack of self-restraint and respect, the victims include the family and friends of the drug-user, and, in a broader sense, society in general. Society itself is corrupted by drug-use as it becomes a cancer that spreads through every element. Children are also put at risk, as drugs become readily available to them, and they lack the maturity to realise the ramifications of the habit and the self-restraint to reject it. As for the philosophy of the individual, justifications based on the idea that the individual is somehow exclusively important, and more important than any collective associations and organizations, quite simply miconstrues man's fundamental nature as a social and inter-dependant creature. We are a social animal; there is simply no such thing as the self-interested individual who somehow manages to do whatever he wants with no damaging effects on his family, his other social networks, and society at large. Everything individuals do has a cause and effect on others. Furthermore, the justifications of the individual are based on flimsy, abstract philisophical superstittions. Modern, abstract ideologies often claim things such as that 'the individual should be able to do this', and 'the individual has a right to do this', as if somehow these rights would exist by nature. We reject these abstractions in full - they have no root in anything concrete: no root in culture, history, tradition, values, particularities. They are simply someone's idea of what should be good, hidden in rhetoric to seem good and justified. The simple fact is this - nothing positive can come of drugs. Only negative can come of their use, and only negative can come from their impact on individuals, families, neighbourhoods and societies. So why should they be legal, aside from flimsy claims that the individual is somehow supreme in his importance over all other social entities? We strongly support this motion. Drugs are a cancer on our society and should not be tolerated. |
| Date | 03:54:16, June 30, 2008 CET | From | National Movement for Civic Democracy | To | Debating the Drug Restriction Act |
| Message | well said reform party. |
| Date | 21:37:15, June 30, 2008 CET | From | Sons of Liberty | To | Debating the Drug Restriction Act |
| Message | "You speak as the idea of self-determined choicies towards life aren't valid if they lead to pain. What of love? What of the family unit that the Reform party holds so dear? It is my opinion that families, love, and relationships are just as destructive to society as any drugs or alcohol. How is it that something can have the best case scenario of you dying before the one you love, and this is considered something good? It's been scientifically proven through brain scan testing that the response to seeing someone you're infatuated with or in love with is a perfect match for the response of a heroin addict partaking in his drugs. The very same opioid reactors and hormonal release occurs. What is love? What is family? Inprinted instinctual response based around evolutionary traits that make these emotional responses occur when the subconsious identifies someone who would be best suited as a compliment to the self in the raising of children to successfully pass on one's DNA. And thus, man behaves irrationally and illogically towards others and self when on the subject of one's affections. They will eschew friends, responsibilities, and reason for the simple addiction to love. Friends and family are lost to love every day. Just as much misery and depression and suicide, if not more, goes on thanks to love than to any drug we have today. And in the end, either the relationship fails and the misery sets in, or one partner dies. What a happy ending. No, sirs, we believe that everything can cause just as much misery as drugs can. Whatever moralist stigma you wish to attach to drugs as opposed to any other is your perogative, but you must understand that there is no difference in the misery that will exist and the tax on the emotions of the citizens regardless of drugs. It is human nature to be miserable, to destroy itself. Drug use, just as love, causes a lot of happiness and a lot of sadness. So unless you outlaw emotion, too, you're just ruling out one more type of happiness which is easier to deal with while leaving the much harsher reality to those who don't want it." - Judas Mulderrig, President of the Libertarian Party. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes | Total Seats: 105 | |||
| no |
Total Seats: 109 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 51 |
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