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Bill: Bill NP-106: Stoping the prohibtion on drug act
Details
Submitted by[?]: National Progress 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: April 4250
Description[?]:
| (This bill was proposed by the minister of Health and Social Services Jordan Ryan) Let's face it, the prohibition on drugs doesn't work. Drug is a really importan problem in our society and we must fight it, but simply puting people in jail won't solve the problem. For too long politiciens have used the drug prohibition as a way to avoid addressing the social and economic factors that lead people to use drugs. Poverty and despair are at the root of most problematic drug use and it is only by addressing these underlying causes that we can hope to significantly decrease the number of problematic users. If we could use all the money that we are puting in law enforcement agaisn't drug and put it in social programs to actually help the drug addicts we would be a hundred time more efficient in fighting drugs. Being a drug addict is not a crime, it's a disease. And you can't cure someone by throwing him in prison. It's time that we stop the prohibition on drug and that we put in place a real efficient anti-drug policy. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The recreational drug policy.
Old value:: The use of cannabis is legal.
Current: All naturally occurring drugs are legal.
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 | 00:29:07, July 31, 2017 CET | From | Federal Heritage Party of Hutori | To | Debating the Bill NP-106: Stoping the prohibtion on drug act |
| Message | Mr. Speaker, Quite frankly and surprisingly we agree with the NPP on many of their points. However, how does legalizing illicit drug production aid in our defense against this blight of modern society? While we agree that those who use drugs should not be treated as criminals but, as those afflicted with a disease we believe that this only attacks one side of the problem. Our belief is that in order to win the war on drugs we must attack both the supply side and demand side of the equation. We provide care for those afflicted with addiction and we shut down production where ever we find it. This is how we remove the blight in a compassionate and caring way not by legalizing a trade in which the producers and dealers of these products get rich by pushing down the vulnerable and downtrodden. Senator Wyatt McLaughlin (F-AD) Federalist Senate Leader |
| Date | 10:18:19, July 31, 2017 CET | From | National Progress Party | To | Debating the Bill NP-106: Stoping the prohibtion on drug act |
| Message | Mr. Speaker I understand the point of the senator McLaughlin, that he think that in order to beat the drug problem we must both attack both side, the demand and the production. But the thing is that attacking the production is praticly useless. Because if you destroy the production you don't necessarily destroy the demand but if you destroy the demand you necessarily destroy the production, that just simple logic. Soo this is why it must our prority to keep people from using drug. We put a incredible amount of money each year in law enforcement to try to stop to drug dealer and if we could just put all this money in social program that really help the drug addict we would be so much more efficient. Furthermore, there is another advantage to the legalisation of every drug, the fact that the drug consumer will now have acces to cleaner drug. If we legalise all drug, it will completely wipe out the black market and drug will only be aviable in controlled and regulated place. And these place will have the obligation to sell clean and ''safe'' drug so, in a way,this legislation will bring more safety to the drug addict. -Jordan Ryan minister of Health and Social Services |
| Date | 17:25:01, July 31, 2017 CET | From | Federal Heritage Party of Hutori | To | Debating the Bill NP-106: Stoping the prohibtion on drug act |
| Message | Mr. Speaker, The logic of it is that if you destroy supply or demand the other necessarily is destroyed. However, both supply and demand in this particular case are very difficult to dismantle. That is why a superior strategy would be to attack both sides and reduce both the supply and demand therefore reducing the overall reach of the illicit drug industry. Secondly, Minister Ryan claims that legalization makes a "clean" drug and that it would wipe out the black market. This is empirically false the black market will continue to persist and the drug quality won't go up it will go down due to the influx of demand that this will introduce into the market. Senator Wyatt McLaughlin (F-AD) Federalist Senate Leader |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 185 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 367 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 53 |
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