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Bill: Misuse of Drugs Act (2889)
Details
Submitted by[?]: Fortunato's Fascist Formation
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 2890
Description[?]:
Due to popular demand and what our party percieves to be, only the 'right thing' to do. This bill will effectively outlaw all recreational drugs. Should our border security bill pass. We can focus our energies on creating a narcotics division within the national police force to help deal with an increase in organized. We can create a variety of rehabilitation programs for suffering addicts. We can drastically cut spending in the national health service. The prospects of the changes that we can make to society are beneficial for all. It's the right thing to do. I beg all parties to vote for this proposal and not to be tempted by corporate greed. |
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: All naturally occurring drugs are legal.
Proposed: Recreational drug use is forbidden.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
Date | 06:03:51, February 06, 2010 CET | From | Union of Radical Republicans (UM) | To | Debating the Misuse of Drugs Act (2889) |
Message | Mr. Speaker, how would this bill at all help reduce spending in health services or police? This would do nothing but begin a pointless war against those unable to defend themselves from prosecution for drug "crimes" and against our borders - an unnecessary increase in surveillance and unwanted "security" against the subjects of the Kingdom. |
Date | 08:07:32, February 06, 2010 CET | From | Fortunato's Fascist Formation | To | Debating the Misuse of Drugs Act (2889) |
Message | Mr Speaker. I must ask if you are on drugs yourself. Are you seriously arguing that hardcore substances such as Heroin and crack cocaine do not kill? Do you have any idea how much of a negative effect that drugs is having on our society. Highly addictive substances have sent our crime rate sky high as addicts struggle to find money for their daily fix. |
Date | 18:47:06, February 06, 2010 CET | From | Union of Radical Republicans (UM) | To | Debating the Misuse of Drugs Act (2889) |
Message | Joseph Addison, Mn. of Health & Social Services Mr. Speaker, I must ask the gentleman from the Ultras if he has thought through this proposal's implications. Of course drug use is an important social problem, but the criminalization of all recreational drug use will not remove the demand or the markets. It will merely force it underground; in time, this will create a black market that increases the dangers of drug use through adulteration of drugs for increased profit, brings dangerous, and possibly deadly, competition for places to illegally sell these drugs, distracts police from dealing with real problems in increasingly overpopulated cities in favor of focus on statistical gains against new drug crimes, and prevents those in need of help from seeking it for fear of legal reprisal. Addiction is never good, but this proposal would create far more problems than it might solve. |
Date | 18:57:21, February 06, 2010 CET | From | Fortunato's Fascist Formation | To | Debating the Misuse of Drugs Act (2889) |
Message | Mr Speaker, If we strengthened our borders and ports, created an incorruptible narcotics and organized crime division, aswell as open rehabilitation programs and begin educating our youngsters. We could rebuild our nation. You all need to forget the money to be made in the drug business and listen to your conscience and tell yourself this. It's the right thing to do. |
Date | 19:42:50, February 06, 2010 CET | From | Union of Radical Republicans (UM) | To | Debating the Misuse of Drugs Act (2889) |
Message | Wendell Lloyd, Mn. of the Interior Mr. Speaker, the Ultras speak of a perfectly controlled border, an incorruptible and infallible police force, and free and open drug rehabilitation programs without social stigma. These are all huge "if"s - especially in a state with over half a billion subjects, two lengthy land borders, some of Terra's busiest ports, constant battles for funding contingent on the moral policies of the parties in government, and a neighbor more than willing to fund state smuggling organizations to penetrate our border. But even if all these things could be true, the Union would still not support such a bill - it is a deep encroachment on the rights of the individual to choose their own paths. |
Date | 06:19:56, February 07, 2010 CET | From | Fortunato's Fascist Formation | To | Debating the Misuse of Drugs Act (2889) |
Message | OOC: I loved your response. Keep it up. |
Date | 06:21:48, February 07, 2010 CET | From | Fortunato's Fascist Formation | To | Debating the Misuse of Drugs Act (2889) |
Message | Mr Speaker, it is a deep encroachment on the rights of the individual to choose their own path? What about the art of manipulation your that party continually speaks of? |
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Voting
Vote | Seats | ||||
yes | Total Seats: 89 | ||||
no |
Total Seats: 141 | ||||
abstain |
Total Seats: 161 |
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