Comprehensive Drug Reform Bill [Vetoed; Failed]

[Small Business Owner of Any Repute]

So long as it's redefined as health care related to drug usage, I'm fine.

Aye.

[Verily]

Tally on Jake's Amendment
Aye: 3 (Jake; Sam Spade; Moderate)
Nay: 1 (Ebowed)
Abstain: 2 (Verily; Sensei)
Yet to vote: 4 (Afleitch; Bacon King; Friz; Speed of Sound)

[Friz]

Nay.

[Speed of Sound]

Nay

[afleitch]

Abstain

[Bacon King]

abstain

[Verily]

Revised Tally on Jake's Amendment
Aye: 3 (Jake; Sam Spade; Moderate)
Nay: 3 (Ebowed; Friz; Speed of Sound)
Abstain [Voted]: 4 (Verily; Sensei; Afleitch; Bacon King)

With three in favor and three opposed, the VP gets to do his duty.

[Јas]

Were I in the Senate, I'd probably have taken the luxery of an abstention.
Unfortunately, I'm faced with the rather blunt Yes/No option.

I would favour the creation of the safe injection site, at least to see how successful it could be in practice. I also am in favour of ensuring that we can provide addiction treatment to those who need it. Can't we do both?

I vote Nay, but would ask Senators to propose Sen. Jake's section on treatment as a new section to the bill.

[Jake]

I'll be voting against any form of the bill with health care provided to addicts who are not engaged in ending their addiction. I have no problem with needle exchange programs which help slow the spread of disease, only with provided health treatment to users who overdose without strings attached to make them quit.

[Verily]

Result on Jake's Amendment
Aye: 3 (Jake; Sam Spade; Moderate)
Nay: 4 (Ebowed; Friz; Speed of Sound; Jas)
Abstain [Voted]: 4 (Verily; Sensei; Afleitch; Bacon King)

With four opposed, three in favor and four abstaining, the amendment fails.

[Verily]

Okay, we are now voting on teh following amendment. Please vote Aye, Nay or Abstain.

Im proposing this amendment:

Section 3: Safe Injection Sites
1. The federal government will invest $10 million FY 2009 in the construction of a Safe Injection Site in the District of Columbia.
2. No person using illicit drugs inside of a Safe Injection Site may face prosecution of any kind in relation to the possession or consumption of the drug.
3. All persons entering the Safe Injection Site will be provided with clean needle syringes and any medical care necessary free of charge.
4. A donation of a dollar will be requested upon entrance to the Site. This donation is not required. Donations of any size will be accepted, assuming it is a legal donation.

Aye

[Sam Spade]

Abstain

[Ebowed]

Nay

[Small Business Owner of Any Repute]

Abstain for now.

[Jake]

Nay, poorly written.

[Sensei]

aye

[Sam Spade]

I change my vote to Nay.

[Verily]

Tally on Speed of Sound's Amendment
Aye: 2 (Verily; Sensei)
Nay: 3 (Ebowed; Jake; Sam Spade)
Abstain: 1 (Moderate)
Yet to vote: 4 (Afleitch; Bacon King; Friz; Speed of Sound)

[Bacon King]

Nay

[Small Business Owner of Any Repute]

Once the voting on this amendment is finished, for sake of completion and consistancy, I seek to add the following drugs/substances to the list of those allowed:

Motion to amend Section 2.1:

1. All federal laws, as well as District of Columbia and federal territory laws, prohibiting the private possession, consumption, or profitless distribution of the following substances are repealed: all Schedule III oral and intravenous anabolic steroids, all prohormones listed in U.S. 118 Stat. 1661 (including, but not limited to, 4-androstenedione, 4-androstenediol, 19-norandrostenedione, 19-norandrostenediol, and 1-androstenediol), human growth hormone (hGH), 3,4-methylenedioxy-N-methylamphetamine (MDMA), mescaline, Peyote, psilocin, psilocybin, d-lysergic acid amide (LSA), lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), salvia divinorum, dimethyltryptamine (DMT), ephedrine, opium, cocaine (including freebase cocaine), gamma-hydroxybutyrate (GHB), ibogaine, heroin, 5-methoxy-n,n-diisopropyltryptamine (5-MeO-DIPT), 2C-T-7, 2C-B, cathinone (khat), alpha-methyltryptamine (AMT), 5-OH-DMT, amphetamines, dextroamphetamine, methamphetamine, oxycodone, morphine, phencyclidine (PCP), benzylpiperazine, codeine, synthetic cannabinoids, marinol, and ketamine.

If we're going to decriminalize everything, we may as well decriminalize everything.

[Speed of Sound]

Aye

[Verily]

Revised Tally on Speed of Sound's Amendment
Aye: 3 (Verily; Sensei; Speed of Sound)
Nay: 4 (Ebowed; Jake; Sam Spade; Bacon King)
Abstain: 1 (Moderate)
Yet to vote: 2 (Afleitch; Friz)

[afleitch]

Aye

[Verily]

Revised Tally on Speed of Sound's Amendment
Aye: 4 (Verily; Sensei; Speed of Sound; Afleitch)
Nay: 4 (Ebowed; Jake; Sam Spade; Bacon King)
Abstain [Voted]: 1 (Moderate)
Abstain [Didn't vote]: 1 (Friz)

Time has expired for voting on this amendment. With four in favor and four opposed, the VP again gets to do his duty.

[Јas]

Aye