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Bill: Zero Tollerance Bill (ii) of 2303
Details
Submitted by[?]: Nuncirist Party of Telamon
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: November 2303
Description[?]:
| The use of drugs are often a cause of ciminal activities in certain neighbourhoods. Our party is in favour of a zero tollerance policy, prevention is better than cure. |
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: Recreational drug use is forbidden.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 20:47:54, October 23, 2006 CET | From | Democratic Party of Telamon | To | Debating the Zero Tollerance Bill (ii) of 2303 |
| Message | Actually, legalizing certain drugs decreases crime, since gangs no longer sell them. |
| Date | 21:09:39, October 23, 2006 CET | From | Telamon Royalist Party | To | Debating the Zero Tollerance Bill (ii) of 2303 |
| Message | The Democrats are right. By criminalizing cannabis, you simply make more criminals, by definition. This is just another move by the Nuncirist Party to take away rights, and we won't stand for it. |
| Date | 23:58:54, October 23, 2006 CET | From | Nuncirist Party of Telamon | To | Debating the Zero Tollerance Bill (ii) of 2303 |
| Message | So what you are saying is that by supporting the current legalization of that criminal activity, we decrease criminality in general? Forbidden activities cannot be solved by legalizing it, only by executing a zero-tollerance policy. In our opinion, the use of any drug is a criminal activity and in many cases causes serious health problems, that society has to pay for. We cannot allow that, not for the innocent people who have become a victim and certainly not for our children. |
| Date | 02:05:47, October 24, 2006 CET | From | Catholic Workers Union | To | Debating the Zero Tollerance Bill (ii) of 2303 |
| Message | Opposed. |
| Date | 06:50:07, October 24, 2006 CET | From | Telamon Royalist Party | To | Debating the Zero Tollerance Bill (ii) of 2303 |
| Message | By definition it is NOT a criminal or forbidden act! It is perfectly legal! And yes, by definition, if you make something that is legal illegal, you increase the level of crime, because those people who conduct that activity are now criminals. They weren't before. |
| Date | 13:32:01, October 24, 2006 CET | From | Nuncirist Party of Telamon | To | Debating the Zero Tollerance Bill (ii) of 2303 |
| Message | It is perfectly legal because those parties who supported that criminal activity, legalized it. End of story. By penalizing it we reduce the level of crime - history has proven us that those alternative progressive methods often don't work, even make it worse. |
| Date | 16:15:59, October 24, 2006 CET | From | Democratic Party of Telamon | To | Debating the Zero Tollerance Bill (ii) of 2303 |
| Message | But the drug users only affect themselves, if they don't smoke near others. If you are concerned about our government having to pay for the health problems, then we can pass a law that requires cannabis users to pay for certain treatments for the diseases they have a higher chance of getting. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes | Total Seats: 74 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 227 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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