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Bill: Senate Resolution 228: Responsible Health Systems Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Federal Independent Party
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: September 3075
Description[?]:
| SR 228: RHSA |
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: The medicinal use of cannabis is illegal.
Proposed: The medicinal use of cannabis is illegal.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 05:02:09, February 11, 2011 CET | From |  Labour Party | To | Debating the Senate Resolution 228: Responsible Health Systems Act |
| Message | *from the floor of the Senate* The delivery of medicine for any healthful purpose by a physician is no business of the state. The SDPS official policy regarding medical cannabis is that if a physician believes his or her patient stands to receive medical benefits from consuming cannabis, then the physician should be allowed to prescribe said cannabis to the patient for medical reasons. The patient-doctor relationship is a sacred one, as sacred as one's very health, and should be respected. I yield back. Brandon Helmkamp Social Democratic Vice Chancellor |
| Date | 05:13:45, February 11, 2011 CET | From | Federal Independent Party | To | Debating the Senate Resolution 228: Responsible Health Systems Act |
| Message | This is something quite easily exploited, a vice that threatens the future and viability of our children and families to grow successfully. While perhaps a good intention, it is ultimately a venue that leads to other more serious drugs and substances and acts as the gateway to malicious entities such as gang life. The SDPS should realize that a doctor and patient wave their rights when the purpose of their relationship is tied together solely by moral decay and societal degradation. FIP Senator James Millelan |
| Date | 05:45:38, February 11, 2011 CET | From | Labour Party | To | Debating the Senate Resolution 228: Responsible Health Systems Act |
| Message | We maintain that the only time that cannabis is linked to social degradation is when someone is forced to seek cannabis in the realms of the shady criminal underground. If obtained legally, it takes the money away from the criminal enterprises and puts it into the hands of entrepreneurs. The history of cannabis as a gateway drug exists because people who went to underground drug dealers were offered more dangerous drugs as well. Someone in a cannabis pharmacy isn't going to be offered heroin, crack or other drugs there, but on the street, they very well might be. Brandon Helmkamp Social Democratic Vice Chancellor |
| Date | 07:03:37, February 11, 2011 CET | From | Conservative Party of Solentia | To | Debating the Senate Resolution 228: Responsible Health Systems Act |
| Message | "Mr. Premier, While the CPS believes in the government legislation of strong moral fiber, we cannot in good conscience allow patients in pain to be denied the relief which they need. In its medicinal use, cannabis is and should remain as legal as penicillin, or any other drug. I yield." Sheila Harrison, Minister of Internal Affairs, CPS Chairman |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes | Total Seats: 162 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 263 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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