Consolidated Marijuana Regulation Act [Law'd]

[Napoleon]

I am thinking about my vote and discussing it with colleagues and constituents. I'm concerned with clause 4, which I find to be wasteful spending.

Marijuana is already legal everywhere, you know.

[Marokai Backbeat]

/sigh

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Nay

[bgwah]

aye

[Marokai Backbeat]

Another bill falling victim to Suddenly Nay. It amazes me that a bill that only barely changes taxes, adds clarity to current law, and cleans up the statute, is absolutely positively unacceptable and how dare we consider passing this horrendous bill that will wreak havoc on us all.

[Napoleon]

I tried to compromise and make positive amendments to this bill. No one seemed to care.

[Marokai Backbeat]

I tried to compromise and make positive amendments to this bill. No one seemed to care.

I can't help but feel like I'm being constantly blindsided around here lately. People turn on a dime from liking things to hating things to liking things back to hating things, and others sit around not saying a peep and then rise up in opposition to something from literally out of nowhere.

My expectations of this Senate's behavior is constantly being turned upside down. Whatever 'positive amendments' you wanted to make to this bill were A) Trying to make marijuana completely untaxed, which is preposterous, or B) Getting upset that some of the money goes to rehab centers.

OH THE HORROR. REHAB CENTERS.

[Ban my account ffs!]

I think this is a sound bill.  I think the sale and use of marijuana should be uniformly legal throughout Atlasia.

And though I would prefer to use the majority of tax revenues from marijuana on rehabilitation centers and drug use awareness programs, I think this bill strikes a good balance.

[Napoleon]

I trust the president's judgment, so please change my vote to Aye.

[Mopsus]

I voted against this bill because it makes marijuana legal throughout the country, stripping regions of their authority to regulate marijuana as they see fit. That's something that I do not support, and I suspect that that's why the other Senators voted Nay.

[Junkie]

Aye

[Fmr President & Senator Polnut]

I am very torn on this.

I believe the legalisation of marijuana is an inevitability, however, I equally support the rights of the regions to determine what happens within their borders.

If marijuana is legal, then it should be taxed and revenues used for positive ends.

I'm leaning toward aye... but that's only a slight lean.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Aye, with reservations.

[Marokai Backbeat]

By a 5-4 vote, and over a week of the final vote being open, this bill has passed and I now present it to the President.

[Fmr. Pres. Duke]

Did Snowguy resign or is he just MIA?

[Napoleon]

Did Snowguy resign or is he just MIA?

He last posted in this thread one week ago. The last time this bill was debated was one week ago. The vote ended less than 24 hours ago. I don't see what is MIA about that...

[Ban my account ffs!]

X Snowguy716

I'm glad the bill passed.