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Bill: Decriminalization of Recreational Drugs
Details
Submitted by[?]: Alliance 44
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: February 2137
Description[?]:
| As several examples do show criminalization of recreational drugs brought little or no result in countries applying ragulations of that kind. Labour therefore propose to lax regulations on the usage of these natural substances. Doing so, the government will hit out on organized crime profiting from the traffic and production of recreational drugs and at the same time will have a better control over the trade of them, not to mention the income from the luxury tax imposed over them. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The recreational drug policy.
Old value:: Recreational drug use is forbidden.
Current: The use of cannabis is legal.
Proposed: All naturally occurring drugs are legal.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 18:49:03, November 05, 2005 CET | From | Society of Sadists | To | Debating the Decriminalization of Recreational Drugs |
| Message | SoS votes for as a sign of our discontent with the current law. However this would make opium and many exceptionally damaging drugs legal and would irresponsible to pass. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 70 | |||||
| no | Total Seats: 27 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 3 |
| Random fact: "Treaty-locking", or ratifiying treaties that completely or nearly completely forbid any proposals to change laws, is not allowed. Amongst other possible sanctions, Moderation reserves the discretion to delete treaties and/or subject parties to a seat reset if this is necessary in order to reverse a treaty-lock situation. |
| Random quote: "Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person." - Mother Teresa |