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Bill: Narcotics Ban Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: National Republican 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: August 3845
Description[?]:
| Recreational drug use (including hard rugs such as crystal meth, cocaine, heroin, etc.) should be illegal in our nation. They pose a grave danger to public health through needle exchange HIV and addiction/overdose. While marijuana is a different case, these drugs destroy citizens and lessen national productivity. It is immoral that government stands by and allows this plague to infect our nation. |
Proposals
Article 1
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: Recreational drugs sales are handled by private foundations which are heavily regulated by the government.
Proposed: Sales of recreational drugs within the nation are prohibited by the law.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 09:05:03, March 30, 2015 CET | From | Libertarian Party | To | Debating the Narcotics Ban Act |
| Message | It is immoral for the government to dictate what consenting adults are allowed to do with, or put into, their bodies. The act of using any drug should not be considered a crime. Yes, there are risks to drug use, but instead of spending money to keep users in jail, we should be funding programs to educate drug users on how to use them in moderation, and the dangers of things like sharing needles. |
| Date | 12:11:23, March 30, 2015 CET | From | Liberal Democrats | To | Debating the Narcotics Ban Act |
| Message | I can't agree more. |
| Date | 00:31:25, May 13, 2015 CET | From | National Republican Party | To | Debating the Narcotics Ban Act |
| Message | This is different from the proposal that we brought forward earlier, during which there was confusion between us and TRP as to whether it banned marijuana or not. This is the correction. This bill bans the sale of recreational drugs (this time including all of the hard drugs mentioned above). As a compromise, we would also agree to support and explicit legalization of marijuana, just to avoid confusion and leave Telamon with the drug policy that the NRP has always intended: Legal weed, illegal hard drugs. |
| Date | 00:34:37, May 13, 2015 CET | From | Telamonian Reform Party | To | Debating the Narcotics Ban Act |
| Message | That is not what this bill would do. This bill concerns the sale of whatever recreational drugs are legal. If we pass this bill and then legalise cannabis it will mean that cannabis is technically legal but it is illegal to sell it. The way to implement the NRP's policy (with which the TRP agree) is to keep this law as it is and return the other drug law to a state where it legalises only cannabis. |
| Date | 00:37:07, May 13, 2015 CET | From | National Republican Party | To | Debating the Narcotics Ban Act |
| Message | Very well. We will vote for a change to the other law. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||
| yes | Total Seats: 234 | ||
| no |
Total Seats: 266 | ||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: Zardugal is a nation based on the old Byzantine Empire, with a modern twist and the Esperanto language. Zardugal is located on the continent of Majatra. |
| Random quote: "Conservatism, however, is too often a welcome excuse for lazy minds, loath to adapt themselves to fast changing conditions." - Sigmund Freud |