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Bill: Recreational drug legalisation bill
Details
Submitted by[?]: Internationale Kommunistische Partei
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: April 3445
Description[?]:
| The Federation recognises that prohibition is useless in preventing substance abuse and simply pushes the most vulnerable in our society into the hands of the most dangerous, and that by taking drugs out of the hands of criminals and engaging in education and medical solutions a much more effective drugs policy can be created. OOC: Drug policy options are quit limited. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The recreational drug policy.
Old value:: Recreational drug use is forbidden.
Current: All naturally occurring drugs are legal.
Proposed: There are no laws regulating what citizens can put into their bodies.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Government law concerning the sales of recreational drugs.
Old value:: Recreational drugs sales are handled by private foundations which are heavily regulated by the government.
Current: Sales of recreational drugs within the nation are prohibited by the law.
Proposed: The government is entirely responsible for the controlled sales of recreational drugs through operating stores and other locations.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 03:38:18, February 22, 2013 CET | From |  Allianz für Freiheit | To | Debating the Recreational drug legalisation bill |
| Message | "The liberalization of drug laws is acceptable to the AF. The socialization of the market is not." -Rikae Suzuki, AF Critic for Health and Social Services |
| Date | 11:41:26, February 22, 2013 CET | From | Hosianisch-Demokratisches Verbund | To | Debating the Recreational drug legalisation bill |
| Message | "So citizens have the freedom to take immoral, unhealthy and harmful actions? Harddrugs would be on the street, even supplied by the government? This is a disgrace." |
| Date | 15:27:43, February 22, 2013 CET | From | Sozialdemokratische Arbeiterpartei | To | Debating the Recreational drug legalisation bill |
| Message | "The government would supply them so that we can be certain they are regulated well. And yes, that's known as 'freedom.' In a free society, any citizen has the right to put whatever they want into their bodies." |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||
| yes | Total Seats: 376 | ||
| no | Total Seats: 374 | ||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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