Marijuana Legalization and Taxation Act

[Gabu]

More votes on the amendment, please.

[MAS117]

Aye on the Gabu amendment.

[Gabu]

With five votes in favor to one against, and with only nine senators, this amendment has passed.

Now it's time for Filibuster II: Electric Boogaloo.

Clause four (4) shall read "Cannibis in Atlasia shall not be grown in any type of soil, sand, or substitute".

I hereby open voting, yadda yadda yadda NAY

[Sam Spade]

Amusing, but...

Nay.

[MAS117]

NAY

[King]

This is the 'effective' Senator that Keystone Phil wants re-elected:

Mr. President, I hereby introduce the following ammendment:

No person in Atlasia who has not attained the age of two hundred years shall consume or otherwise grow or distribute marijuana.

We should have a procedure law that requires every amendment to have at least one co-sponsor.

[Peter]

It is the right of a Senator to filibust. His amendments are still germane, and as long as they remain so, I think its an excellent demonstration of democracy.

[King]

It is the right of a Senator to filibust. His amendments are still germane, and as long as they remain so, I think its an excellent demonstration of democracy.

Only problem is we have no 2/3 law to stop a filibuster like most parliamentary systems and with bill re-introduction, this could be in circulation for the rest of our lives.

[Sam Spade]

This is the 'effective' Senator that Keystone Phil wants re-elected:

Mr. President, I hereby introduce the following ammendment:

No person in Atlasia who has not attained the age of two hundred years shall consume or otherwise grow or distribute marijuana.

We should have a procedure law that requires every amendment to have at least one co-sponsor.

My overhaul of the Senate's procedural resolutions laid out in these two threads would take care of this problem.

https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=16936.msg434047#msg434047

https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=16936.msg442197#msg442197

For this problem, read Article 4, Section 2, Clause 3.

[Gabu]

It is the right of a Senator to filibust. His amendments are still germane, and as long as they remain so, I think its an excellent demonstration of democracy.

Personally, I think that it's an excellent demonstration of one person preventing the elected people from doing their job, but that's just me.  If we can allow one single person to stall every single bill for as long as he wants, that's kind of a lot of power, isn't it?

I also don't really see how an amendment striking the entire bill from existence is germane, but whatever.

[Peter]

Personally, I think that it's an excellent demonstration of one person preventing the elected people from doing their job, but that's just me.

If we can allow one single person to stall every single bill for as long as he wants, that's kind of a lot of power, isn't it?

Whatever made you think this was the case?

[Sam Spade]

Since NixonNow has now resigned from the Senate, can we ignore his amendments, and I motion to bring this bill to a vote, unless their are any objections or more reasonable amendments.

[Gabu]

Since NixonNow has now resigned from the Senate, can we ignore his amendments, and I motion to bring this bill to a vote, unless their are any objections or more reasonable amendments.

Tradition is to wait twenty-four hours for more debate after an amendment passes, so I'll start counting from the passage of my amendment, which means that a vote will be called at around noon tomorrow.

[Colin]

Nay on the NixonNow amendment although since he has resigned wouldn't that make his amendment not admissible?

[WMS]

Just in case...

Nay on the NixonNow amendment.

[Sam Spade]

I motion to call a vote on this bill.  (to be seconded by 2/3 of the Senate after 5 days of the debating)

[Colin]

I motion to call a vote on this bill.  (to be seconded by 2/3 of the Senate after 5 days of the debating)

I second this motion.

[MAS117]

I third the motion.

[Gabu]

I fourth the motion, which I would have done had I not been here.   Sorry, folks.

I hereby bring this bill to a vote.  The final state of the bill is as follows:

Marijuana Legalization and Taxation Act[/i]

§ 1 The possession, sale, and consumption of marijuana, and the plants needed for its processing, shall not be considered illegal by the federal government of Atlasia.  Commercially sold marijuana cigarettes shall be subject to the same regulations as tobacco cigarettes, unless a regional law shall nullify this provision and provide its own.

§ 2 All federal activities dealing with the investigation and prosecution of said criminal activities as listed in Clause 1 shall be immediately shut down, and the money currently appropriated for these activities shall be appropriated as follows:

 a. A sum of no less than one-half (50%) and no greater than the whole (100%) of the appropriations and moneys procured by this bill must be designated towards the general Budgetary fund and the necessity of covering the present Budget’s shortfall and may not be authorized by the Senate to fund any other appropriations in this present Fiscal Year (2006).

 b. A sum of no less than none (0%) and no greater than one-half (50%) of the appropriations and moneys procured by this bill may be authorized by the Senate in future legislation to fund appropriations and expenditures exclusively with any or all of the following measures:
 i. The construction and funding of treatment centers for alcohol, marijuana, and other drug abuses.
 ii. The so-called "War on Drugs" against illegal drugs not decriminalized by this legislation

§ 3 All those convicted of crimes in federal courts that have been repealed in this bill shall be released from any sentence in prison they are presently serving and any outstanding fines owed. These provisions do not exonerate those who are presently in jail or paying fines for other crimes and misdemeanors.

§ 4 Taxes on marijuana shall be set in the annual budget. Individual regions may set their own taxes on marijuana as they see fit.

All senators in favor, vote "aye"; all against, vote "nay".

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Aye.

[Sam Spade]

Aye.

[Colin]

Aye

[12th Doctor]

Nay

[Reaganfan]

Nay

[WMS]

Aye. Sorry Super, but I've always thought criminalizing marijuana was damn silly and a waste of resources. ;-)

[MAS117]

Aye