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Bill: Harmful substances act
Details
Submitted by[?]: One Mordusia
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: March 4200
Description[?]:
| An act to ensure that the public are fully aware of the dangers of smoking and other legal and indeed illegal substances. This bill, if passed would see 5 new anti smoking adverts and 2 new anti drug adverts which would be aimed at informing the youth of the dangers of taking drugs. Also all tobacco products will have to be sold in packs with 65% of the pack being covered in health warnings and dismal colouring. The rest of the pack will be for branding purposes only and a compulsory list of Ingredients and cancerous chemicals. To cover for the subsequent loss in profits tobacco companies will be subject to a tax cut and will be able to advertise in areas were children are not going to be looking like in newspapers, clubs. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Regulation of advertising of substances classified as addictive and harmful (if general advertising by companies is permitted and sale of the addictive/harmful products is allowed).
Old value:: Advertising is restricted and has to carry strong warning messages.
Current: Advertising is restricted.
Proposed: Advertising is banned.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change The use of cannabis for medicinal purposes.
Old value:: Cannabis is legal as a sedative for patients in pain.
Current: Cannabis is legal as a sedative for patients in pain.
Proposed: The medicinal use of cannabis is illegal.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change The recreational drug policy.
Old value:: The use of cannabis is legal.
Current: Recreational drug use is regulated by local governments.
Proposed: Recreational drug use is forbidden.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 22:24:24, April 19, 2017 CET | From | The Independent Party (IP) | To | Debating the Harmful substances act |
| Message | We cannot just ban advertising. Also, removing cannabis for medical uses will boost the black market and there is a lot of harmful substances if it's not controlled by the government. |
| Date | 23:56:56, April 20, 2017 CET | From | Mordusia First! | To | Debating the Harmful substances act |
| Message | We do not support any of these proposals. If it gets passed we have more proposals for TromppCare and it will boost its popularity. |
| Date | 00:24:10, April 21, 2017 CET | From | New Labour, New Mordusia | To | Debating the Harmful substances act |
| Message | We agree with the points made by The Independent Party, this will increase criminal activity & the lack of regulation encourage more dangerous strains of cannabis to be sold, causing a greater public health risk. Also, it's not the job of the government to be guaranteeing or enhancing the profits of the tobacco industry. |
| Date | 00:34:31, April 21, 2017 CET | From | One Mordusia | To | Debating the Harmful substances act |
| Message | Of course we would expect this response. Their is a lot of false information and scaremongering over this and I would just like to point out that yes, illegal crime would go up to a degree but I think it is entirely irresponsible of the health services to give a patient a dangerous, addictive drug with hillocinagenic and brain shrinking propoerties. I think that for the article to be removed conclusive evidence must be found saying that cannabis doesn't harm the body or the brain, until then the article stands. We understand the points of a more dangerous strain of the drug being sold and I do agree that this is an issue, but should we be giving it to patients, no, normalising it, no and certainly not encouraging its use. Many people won't want to mess with the law so will most probably seek help instead. New labour make the argument that it isn't our place to help profits of comps but the tobacco industry is so large it would be irresponsible to just let that huge industry be hit so hard as this will effect consumers and employees the most, opposite to what new labour want. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 62 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 263 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 425 |
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