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Bill: Industrial Hemp Regulation
Details
Submitted by[?]: Democrats 2251
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: January 2254
Description[?]:
| Cannabis can be used to make clothing, ropes, food, the oils from the seeds can be made into paint or be used for cooking. However, we have to restrict the industrial hemp industry in order to prevent the growing of drug-related cannabis within our borders. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Policy concerning industrial hemp.
Old value:: There are no regulations on industrial hemp.
Current: There are no regulations on industrial hemp.
Proposed: Only regulated agribusinesses may produce industrial hemp.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 13:14:41, July 08, 2006 CET | From |  Txurruka/Aperribai/Mayoz's OPX | To | Debating the Industrial Hemp Regulation |
| Message | So you promote the idea of growing hemp and yet you want to restrict the growth of the hemp industry? OOC: Btw, 2006 was nearly 250 game years ago. It doesn't make IC sense. |
| Date | 16:48:16, July 08, 2006 CET | From | Democrats 2251 | To | Debating the Industrial Hemp Regulation |
| Message | The description has been updated. |
| Date | 05:09:42, July 10, 2006 CET | From | Liberal Democratic Socialist Party | To | Debating the Industrial Hemp Regulation |
| Message | I am for regulating the hemp industry to prevent fraud by the agribuisnesses. |
| Date | 07:12:33, July 10, 2006 CET | From | Txurruka/Aperribai/Mayoz's OPX | To | Debating the Industrial Hemp Regulation |
| Message | Fraud how? |
| Date | 04:44:20, July 11, 2006 CET | From | Liberal Democratic Socialist Party | To | Debating the Industrial Hemp Regulation |
| Message | Well, for example, overcharging, embezzelment, etc. |
| Date | 12:37:57, July 11, 2006 CET | From | Txurruka/Aperribai/Mayoz's OPX | To | Debating the Industrial Hemp Regulation |
| Message | What about hemp produers makes them so untrustworthy? Isn't embezzelment a crime in any book and already regulated for? Doesn't the free market decide what "overcharging" is? |
| Date | 21:48:27, July 12, 2006 CET | From | Democrats 2251 | To | Debating the Industrial Hemp Regulation |
| Message | Not if you're socialist |
| Date | 03:35:41, July 13, 2006 CET | From | Txurruka/Aperribai/Mayoz's OPX | To | Debating the Industrial Hemp Regulation |
| Message | So the laws of eonomics don't apply to you because of your political persuasion? |
| Date | 04:52:42, July 14, 2006 CET | From | Liberal Democratic Socialist Party | To | Debating the Industrial Hemp Regulation |
| Message | No, it's more that we don't think the free market should determine pricing in every case, for example medicine ect. We support this bill because it would bring prices within reach of the common man. |
| Date | 04:53:14, July 14, 2006 CET | From | Liberal Democratic Socialist Party | To | Debating the Industrial Hemp Regulation |
| Message | And woman too, of course :). |
| Date | 07:46:06, July 14, 2006 CET | From | Txurruka/Aperribai/Mayoz's OPX | To | Debating the Industrial Hemp Regulation |
| Message | "No, it's more that we don't think the free market should determine pricing in every case, for example medicine ect." Market forces are exactly what makes medicine cheap in Baltusia. By offering a contract to exclusively supply 70 million people to a pharmaceutical corporation (an offer no sane corporation would refuse) allows us to enter into a reverse auction where the lowest bidder wins the contract. Funny that. "We support this bill because it would bring prices within reach of the common man." Why does the common man need hemp? Surely the hemp crop is pretty much entirely bought by companies, not by private individuals? I think you may be confusing marijuana (covered by different laws because of a much higher THC content) with hemp. If not, shouldn't the common man be more concerned with feeding his family (which is apparently a massive problem in Baltusia - go figure) rather than buying hemp? |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||
| yes | Total Seats: 0 | ||
| no | Total Seats: 460 | ||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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