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Bill: Legalising drugs
Details
Submitted by[?]: Liberty Party
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: August 2167
Description[?]:
| Prohibition of drugs is illiberal as it interferes with the individual's right to make their own decisions. Prohibition of 'drugs' is hypocritical because it restricts certain drugs (like marijuana) but allows others (like alcohol and tobacco). Prohibition of drugs is bad economics because it interferes in the free market, reduces tax receipts and increases government expense. Prohibition of drugs is bad health policy because it makes it harder for addicts to obtain treatment. Prohibition of drugs increases crime because it artificially raises prices (causing addicts to turn to crime) and gives organised crime a large market in which to operate. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The recreational drug policy.
Old value:: Recreational drug use is forbidden.
Current: Recreational drug use is regulated by local governments.
Proposed: There are no laws regulating what citizens can put into their bodies.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 03:20:00, January 05, 2006 CET | From |  Radical New Party | To | Debating the Legalising drugs |
| Message | Amen to that. You have my party's vote. |
| Date | 04:31:08, January 06, 2006 CET | From | People's Equality Party Of Trigunia | To | Debating the Legalising drugs |
| Message | We communists are all for getting people addicted to drugs ;-) |
| Date | 11:30:39, January 06, 2006 CET | From | Fasces Kromina Conservatives | To | Debating the Legalising drugs |
| Message | Yep... Isn't that exactly what we said in an earlier debate? Heh... |
| Date | 11:39:03, January 06, 2006 CET | From | Fasces Kromina Conservatives | To | Debating the Legalising drugs |
| Message | Anyway, about the costs: Yes, it is going to cost more to maintain the laws against the drugs. Just as it costs to maintain laws and operate against other crimes. We in FKC do not want to decriminalize something in order to decrease costs. Of course, you had some other points as well, but we won't buy this hippie-propaganda. Think about it! Legalising drugs? This is too extreme and immoral for us to agree with. We hope our conservative companions in the other parties will share our opinion. Death to the philistine! |
| Date | 17:05:22, January 06, 2006 CET | From | Radical New Party | To | Debating the Legalising drugs |
| Message | I think Conservative also means Regulatory... I saw it in a dictionary somewhere... |
| Date | 00:07:06, January 07, 2006 CET | From | Liberty Party | To | Debating the Legalising drugs |
| Message | I just noticed your initials are FKC. Are you a dyslexic fast food franchise? |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 270 | ||||
| no | Total Seats: 195 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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