Comprehensive Drug Reform Bill [Vetoed; Failed]

[Verily]

Comprehensive Drug Reform Bill of 2007

Section 1: Findings
1. Current Atlasian policy has led to the incarceration of millions of nonviolent drug users, as well as the devastation of several South American economies and environments, and an overall increase in violent crime associated with drug dealing and untreated addiction.
2. Current Atlasian policy treats drug addiction first and foremost as a criminal problem rather than a medical one.
3. Current Atlasian policy is inherently contradictory in that one of the most intoxicating and addictive substances known to man, alcohol, is legal while possession of softer drugs remains a criminal activity.
4. Current Atlasian policy places harsh sentencing and punishment ahead of harm minimization, effective drug education, and addiction treatment.

Section 2: Decriminalized Substances
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laws, prohibiting the private possession, consumption, or profitless distribution of the following substances are repealed: 3,4-methylenedioxy-N-methylamphetamine (MDMA), mescaline, Peyote, psilocin, psilocybin, d-lysergic acid amide (LSA), lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), salvia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.
2. This section shall not be interpreted to legalize the sale or underage use of the listed substances.
3. All federal laws, including District of Columbia and federal territory laws, prohibiting certain forms of tobacco (including homegrown tobacco, smokeless tobacco, clove cigarettes, or N. rustica), alcohol (including absinthe, and all related ingredients), or associated paraphanelia (including rolling papers, rolling filter tips, matches, and water pipes) are repealed.

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.

Section 4: Good Samaritan Provision
1. In all areas under federal jurisdiction, persons calling for medical help for a person who is suffering immediate health problems due to drug use may not face arrest charges for possession or consumption of illicit substances.

(Sponsor: Ebowed)

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You don't think we should provide treatment to help drug users end their drug use, Jake? Perhaps the wording is vague and therefore suggests that all medical treatment would be provided without charge, but I think any measure to encourage people to stop using drugs is a positive measure.

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I'm not quite sure what to make of the amendment. Is this a sort of "give us money or we'll glare at you and have the security guards follow you around" kind of donation, as at the Met? I mean, we could just charge a dollar, it's not as if that's a huge sum even to the very poor.

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Bah. Xahar, when you correct me, correct me correctly

Anyway, we are now voting on the following amendment, and then on that previous one. Please vote Aye, Nay or Abstain.

I disagree with providing free medical treatment to those actively pursuing drug use.

Section Three is struck.

New Section Three
1. Atlasia shall invest $10 million in FY 2009 in an addiction treatment facility in the District of Columbia. Medical care shall be provided free of charge to all those attempting to end their addiction to illicit drugs.

Abstain

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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)

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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.

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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.

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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

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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)

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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)

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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.

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Result on Speed of Sound's Amendment
Aye: 5 (Verily; Sensei; Speed of Sound; Afleitch; Jas)
Nay: 4 (Ebowed; Jake; Sam Spade; Bacon King)
Abstain [Voted]: 1 (Moderate)
Abstain [Didn't vote]: 1 (Friz)

With five in favor and four opposed, the amendment passes.

[Verily]

We are now voting on the following amendment. Please vote Aye, Nay or Abstain.

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.

Abstain

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Bump. We'll move to a final vote in twenty-four hours if there are no further objections.

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Debate having ceased, I move for a final vote.

We are now voting on the final passage of the following legislation. Please vote Aye, Nay or Abstain.


Comprehensive Drug Reform Bill of 2007

Section 1: Findings
1. Current Atlasian policy has led to the incarceration of millions of nonviolent drug users, as well as the devastation of several South American economies and environments, and an overall increase in violent crime associated with drug dealing and untreated addiction.
2. Current Atlasian policy treats drug addiction first and foremost as a criminal problem rather than a medical one.
3. Current Atlasian policy is inherently contradictory in that one of the most intoxicating and addictive substances known to man, alcohol, is legal while possession of softer drugs remains a criminal activity.
4. Current Atlasian policy places harsh sentencing and punishment ahead of harm minimization, effective drug education, and addiction treatment.

Section 2: Decriminalized Substances
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.
2. This section shall not be interpreted to legalize the sale or underage use of the listed substances.
3. All federal laws, including District of Columbia and federal territory laws, prohibiting certain forms of tobacco (including homegrown tobacco, smokeless tobacco, clove cigarettes, or N. rustica), alcohol (including absinthe, and all related ingredients), or associated paraphanelia (including rolling papers, rolling filter tips, matches, and water pipes) are repealed.

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.

Section 4: Good Samaritan Provision
1. In all areas under federal jurisdiction, persons calling for medical help for a person who is suffering immediate health problems due to drug use may not face arrest charges for possession or consumption of illicit substances.


Aye

[Verily]

I encourage all of the Nay voters here to suggest how exactly they plan on both reducing drug use and making the lives of drug users safer.

While I am neither a Nay voter nor a Senator, I as an opponent of this bill explained my quelms with it in a National Weekly Atlasian article. The simple decriminalization of drugs will make them safer; they are unsafe current because they are illegal. Legal drugs would be make safer to meet market demand, as safe drugs are going to have better sales than unsafe drugs. It is like asking how the Atlasian government should make bread safer. In addition, I oppose this bill because of the specific wording of it; stating the the following drugs are legalized rather than simply saying that all drugs are legalized.

As far as I am aware, this bill covers everything illegal, and we must be specific else the courts will have to decide what constitutes a "drug" when someone brings a case.

Anyway, this legislation has enough votes to fail. Senators have twenty-four hours to change their votes.

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This legislation has enough votes to fail. Senators have twenty-four hours to change their votes.

Tally on Final Passage
Aye: 4 (Verily; Friz; Bacon King; Hughento)
Nay: 5 (Jake; CultureKing; Sam Spade; Hashemite; Meekermariner)
Abstain: 1 (Afleitch)

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Does any Senator at this time wish to motion to overturn the President's veto?

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All right. We are now voting on a motion to overturn the President's veto. Please vote Aye, Nay or Abstain.

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Aye

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Result on Veto Override
Aye: 6 (Colin Wixted; Hughento; Verily; Friz; Afleitch; Bacon King)
Nay: 4 (Meekermariner; CultureKing; Hashemite; Sam Spade)

With four opposed, this veto override motion has failed.