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Bill: Resolution on Recreational Drug Use
Details
Submitted by[?]: Bloc Socialiste
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: January 2191
Description[?]:
WHEREAS the issue of recreational drug use is hotly contested in the Volksversammlung; NOTING our inability to reach a consensus; BEARING IN MIND that cannabis and its derivatives constantly rank as one of the top twenty highest-grossing products in any developed nation; BE IT RESOLVED that the use of cannabis is legal, and all sales of cannabis will be subject to the standard sales tax on clothing, unprepared food, and other essential items, as the amount paid through a luxury tax would cause a major shift in the market from recognised sales outlets to illegal distributors; BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the revenue gained through the sales tax on cannabis shall be put to use in a quantity of at least 25% to help combat illegal drugs and treat the addicted. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The recreational drug policy.
Old value:: Recreational drug use is forbidden.
Current: The use of cannabis is legal.
Proposed: The use of cannabis is legal.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
Date | 20:59:47, February 23, 2006 CET | From | Dranland Progressive Conservatives | To | Debating the Resolution on Recreational Drug Use |
Message | Cannibis is NOT an essential. It should not be taxed as an essential. Hell, why don't we tax alcohol and tobacco as essentials too? |
Date | 23:18:14, February 23, 2006 CET | From | National Progressive Party | To | Debating the Resolution on Recreational Drug Use |
Message | Cannabis is a vice which, for lack of a better term, is an opiate of the masses. It's in the interest of all to ban it, except perhaps criminals. |
Date | 03:44:20, February 24, 2006 CET | From | Bloc Socialiste | To | Debating the Resolution on Recreational Drug Use |
Message | The taxing of cannabis, alcohol, and tobacco as essentials is far better than not taxing them at all through illegalising them, knowing full well that the demand for cannabis will drive those that seek it to pursue illegal means that circumvent the government and, consequently, the people. |
Date | 03:45:42, February 24, 2006 CET | From | Progressive Darwinist Party | To | Debating the Resolution on Recreational Drug Use |
Message | This from the party that thinks children should be allowed to consume alcohol, what a surprise. |
Date | 04:18:03, February 24, 2006 CET | From | Dranland Progressive Conservatives | To | Debating the Resolution on Recreational Drug Use |
Message | Our problem is not with the taxation of cannabis, but with it being taxed as an essential. It is hardly essential to one's standard of living. |
Date | 05:23:35, February 24, 2006 CET | From | Panty Party Party | To | Debating the Resolution on Recreational Drug Use |
Message | Why shouldn't children be able to consume alcohol? You are too agist. Just because they are young, doesn't mean they are dumb. If you allow them to learn, learn they will, much faster and better than any adult could. I know many youth who drink, and do drugs, yet manage to hold a job, go to school, and support their family. Through experiments in rats in cages, it's been shown that they will always attempt to do the drugs, heroin, morphine, cannibis. It's also been shown if you give them a habbitate to live, they will never touch the stuff as they are out living. Enjoying life with their comrades and the such. We should be using drugs as almost a way to show if we need to change our country in certain ways to better help the people of this great nation. Not as a means to arrest those who simply want to escape a reality they don't like. |
Date | 14:04:51, February 24, 2006 CET | From | New Theta | To | Debating the Resolution on Recreational Drug Use |
Message | Why dont we educate and help those that seek to use drugs simply to hide symptoms of an unhappy life. We must provide adequate mental health care, such as effective counselling, without the use of more drugs, to enable people to be mentally effective and to raise the sanity levels of this fair society. We would oppose this bill strongly. |
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Voting
Vote | Seats | |||||
yes |
Total Seats: 508 | |||||
no |
Total Seats: 242 | |||||
abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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