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Bill: The use of cannabis
Details
Status[?]: passed
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 2703
Description[?]:
| The use of cannabis is currently allowed for medical use, as a seditive and panekiller. However the TW@ party believes that this is a short term, and cheep solution, of which there are many other less adictive and less harming drugs which have as good or better effects. There is the question of what is to be done to people who have been prescribed cannabis, and need to be removed from it. Are they left addicted and dependent, getting it through illegitamate means, put through costly removal programs, or given a continued prescription of the drugs, leading to long tearm brain damage, and future mental breakdowns/traumas, due to the side effects of this drug? |
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.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 22:48:38, January 26, 2009 CET | From | United Workers | To | Debating the The use of cannabis |
| Message | We have already tried to pass tis legislation TW@, and we have established that these drugs are quite accepted in medicine, and the use of cannibis is to be strictly regulated, and is only available in the most extreme cases, and therefore, we as the POL believe that the arguments presented to us are acceptable, in that this is the only drug as effective as heroin, and is much less addictive. We shall be voting No for this bill, but are happy to change this vote if sufficient evidence is given for 'less adictive and less harming drugs which have as good or better effects'. It is also a known fact that the drugs used in medicine are purer than those found on the 'Street' and will therefore be much better for the health, especially if they are only used for very short periods of time. |
| Date | 23:35:57, January 26, 2009 CET | From | TW@ | To | Debating the The use of cannabis |
| Message | Although I am sure that you, the POL's intentions are in the right place, you seem to underestimate the damage which cannabis often causes. Following I have some of the symptoms which occur during the use of the drug: 1. Elevated moods, often leading to the HARM of OTHER PEOPLE 2. Slued speech and jittery eyes 3. LOSS of vision, or a reduction in vision, often causing ACCIDENTS which HARM OTHER PEOPLE, and the HARM the USER 4. Circularity collapse, leading to HALTED BREATHING, and shortly DEATH There are then the long term effects of being on cannabis, including: 1. More time spent ill than other people 2. VASTLY increased chances of CANCER 3. A very inefficient immune system UNABLE to COPE with the SLIGHTEST ILLNESS 4. MENTAL PROBLEMS, including SEVERE PHYSIOLOGICAL EPISODES - fits, seizures, seeing and hearing things, and LOSS of MEMORY, and shortened attention spans Then there are the huge withdrawal symptoms, which patients will have to go through after they are finished: 1. SIEZURES and FITS 2. Longing for the drug There is a HUGE risk of getting drawn into the world of HARD DRUG, including HEROIN, and CRACK COCANE, as a result of the use of cannabis. Alternatives which are less addictive and still highly effective include: 1. GHB, a natural substance found in the nervous system, which can be topped up through injections to the spineal cord, casuing a lesser effect than cannabis, but with NO WITHDRAWAL SYMPTOMS. 2. TCM, a widely used seditive, which is AS EFFECTIVE as cannabis, but has FAR REDUCED WITHDRAWAL SYMPTONS. 2. Valerian, a highly effective drug, once grown as a herb, with SIMILAR EFFECTS to cannabis, but with LESS SYMPTONS, and which is SAFER 3. Valclair (UK name), a HIGHLY EFFECTIVE drug, with STRONGER EFFECTS to cannabis, but a slightly LOWER ADDICTION rate. 4. Alprazolam. sutable to be used for short term use, and FAR MORE EFFECTAVE. However also has strong side effects. 5. others, but this is getting a bit long. Include amobarbital, Phenobarbitol, flunitrazepam and others *sources include: guardian newspaper, msn news articles from middlebury university articles from other university's UK government encyclopedia.com |
| Date | 10:48:35, January 27, 2009 CET | From | Christian Democrat Party | To | Debating the The use of cannabis |
| Message | It should be at the doctor's discretion whether cannabis should be used as a sedative. They will know far better than you whether and when it should be used and if it is not appropriate, they shall not use it. If a sedative is required, it is far better to use cannabis than heroin or morphine, which are far more dangerous and addictive. The use of drugs as sedatives is very unlikely to increase the number of people taking them - they are being used for a medical use - not as a recreation. Therefore, all your arguments on the risks of taking cannabis are void. |
| Date | 11:02:49, January 27, 2009 CET | From | TW@ | To | Debating the The use of cannabis |
| Message | You speack with the knowledge of someone who thinks that they know a lot on the subject, but have ignored the actual proposal. It does NOT say that we will replace it with heroin or morphine, but other LESS adictive seditives which are still AS effective |
| Date | 19:07:04, January 27, 2009 CET | From | United Workers | To | Debating the The use of cannabis |
| Message | Fine, convinced me... |
| Date | 19:48:29, January 27, 2009 CET | From | Christian Democrat Party | To | Debating the The use of cannabis |
| Message | You are still trying to ban a medicine - something which is used to help people, not harm them. If a doctor chooses to use cannabis as a sedative - it is their professional medical opinion that it is better for them to take cannabis than to not - and you cannot deny their judgement would be better than yours. For the patient, the cannabis would be a one-off and so it would not inflict the kind of effects that you discuss at great lengths. Your arguments are irrelevant - whether doctors chose to use cannabis or not, it should still be available to them in case it is the best solution. |
| Date | 23:31:19, January 27, 2009 CET | From | Free thinking Party | To | Debating the The use of cannabis |
| Message | some doctors, such as interns may use cannabis without full medical knowledge, it happens often with old treatments when new, safer ones are found, to avoid this problem, outdated medication, such as addictive substances, should be banned |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 287 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 181 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 197 |
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