NationStates Jolt Archive

Medical Marijuana
A resolution to ban, legalize, or encourage recreational drugs.


Category: Recreational Drug Use Decision: Legalize Proposed by: Sliponia
Description: PREAMBLE: The intent of the UN rules governing proposals is to insure that substantial issues are discussed. It is entirely just and proper that this should be so. The Athletic Haven of Sliponia is therefore proud to submit the following for consideration.

THE LEGALIZATION OF MEDICAL MARIJUANA

WHEREAS, although marijuana may have non-medical causes, this resolution is intended to legalize marijuana for the benefit of medical advances;

AND WHEREAS medical marijuana shall only be used for medical related purposes, deemed fit by the member nations of the UN

LET IT BE RESOLVED THAT each member nation of the United Nations follow the set guidelines of the UN's policy towards medical marijuana and offer new ideas to help this policy.

Approvals: 0

Status: Lacking Support (requires 132 more approvals)

Voting Ends: Sun Dec 14 2003


I think I wrote a rather nice proposal. I'm sure someone else could have done it better, but it's my first resolution, I'll be submitting more in the future.

What about a lobotomy? They have medical uses. Why not legalize them?

Feel free to submit that resolution yourself. If I get time, I'll write a resolution on your behalf, and submit it. I'll give your nation full credit and everything.

Also, the resolution is only legalizing marijuana for purchase by medical organizations, not just 100% legal marijuana.

So, let me guess, "medicine" is recreational?

What category should I have put it under? None of the others involved drugs, that are currently illicit in most nations.

Medical Marijuana
A resolution to ban, legalize, or encourage recreational drugs.


Category: Recreational Drug Use Decision: Legalize Proposed by: Sliponia
Description: PREAMBLE: The intent of the UN rules governing proposals is to insure that substantial issues are discussed. It is entirely just and proper that this should be so. The Athletic Haven of Sliponia is therefore proud to submit the following for consideration.

THE LEGALIZATION OF MEDICAL MARIJUANA

WHEREAS, although marijuana may have non-medical causes, this resolution is intended to legalize marijuana for the benefit of medical advances;

AND WHEREAS medical marijuana shall only be used for medical related purposes, deemed fit by the member nations of the UN

LET IT BE RESOLVED THAT each member nation of the United Nations follow the set guidelines of the UN's policy towards medical marijuana and offer new ideas to help this policy.

Approvals: 0

Status: Lacking Support (requires 132 more approvals)

Voting Ends: Sun Dec 14 2003


I think I wrote a rather nice proposal. I'm sure someone else could have done it better, but it's my first resolution, I'll be submitting more in the future.

I support complete legalization and the clause:
AND WHEREAS medical marijuana shall only be used for medical related purposes, deemed fit by the member nations of the UN
seems to prohibit it.

Therefore, I cannot, in good conscience, support this resolution.

I support complete legalization and the clause:
AND WHEREAS medical marijuana shall only be used for medical related purposes, deemed fit by the member nations of the UN
seems to prohibit it.

Therefore, I cannot, in good conscience, support this resolution.

I do not understand what you are saying. :oops: This resolution is not intended for full legalization of marijuana, only for medical purposes. Are you saying you want it fully legalized?

Um, I stubbed my toe. I need another 50 pounds of marijuana.

Feel free to submit that resolution yourself. If I get time, I'll write a resolution on your behalf, and submit it. I'll give your nation full credit and everything.

Also, the resolution is only legalizing marijuana for purchase by medical organizations, not just 100% legal marijuana.

I agree, this is a very nice resolution.

Of course, there is the possibility that individuals will sell it on instead of using it, a problem that exists for any other medication. However, in the case of marijuana, we're talking about a pretty valuable drug. And it's definitely addictive. There is, therefore, the question: how can we restrict and monitor the use of marijuana for medical purposes?

Perhaps regular testing to make sure the patient has actually used it, and no more/less than specified?

I am not aware, however, of all the medical implications of this drug, so I'm not qualified to say what its uses are, or how medically useful it is... Archaeus will have to research the matter further to establish its position on this matter.

- Jordan, Monarch of Archaeus

Feel free to submit that resolution yourself. If I get time, I'll write a resolution on your behalf, and submit it. I'll give your nation full credit and everything.

Also, the resolution is only legalizing marijuana for purchase by medical organizations, not just 100% legal marijuana.

I agree, this is a very nice resolution.

Of course, there is the possibility that individuals will sell it on instead of using it, a problem that exists for any other medication. However, in the case of marijuana, we're talking about a pretty valuable drug. And it's definitely addictive. There is, therefore, the question: how can we restrict and monitor the use of marijuana for medical purposes?

Perhaps regular testing to make sure the patient has actually used it, and no more/less than specified?

I am not aware, however, of all the medical implications of this drug, so I'm not qualified to say what its uses are, or how medically useful it is... Archaeus will have to research the matter further to establish its position on this matter.

- Jordan, Monarch of Archaeus

And WHY does this site insist on posting my things four times, when I only click the button ONCE?

I can't even delete them because the delete button doesn't show up in Mozilla! How irritating!!

- Jordan, Monarch of Archaeus

Um, I stubbed my toe. I need another 50 pounds of marijuana.
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AND WHEREAS medical marijuana shall only be used for medical related purposes, deemed fit by the member nations of the UN

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And it's definitely addictive.
Can that not be said about other, legal, drugs? [i.e. Oxycotinin]

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And it's definitely addictive.
Can that not be said about other, legal, drugs? [i.e. Oxycotinin]

Yes, some legal drugs are addictive. I was hoping to point out that perhaps regulations would have to be imposed upon its use, or its use monitored, in consideration of this fact.

- Jordan, Monarch of Archaeus

Lots of other drugs is addictive. I cannot in good conscious vote for this proposal however because I do not need the U.N. to tell the segment of my population that are indeed hippie pot smokers, not to smoke. If they want to smoke, then they can smoke. More government does not equal better. With the clause of "As any member nation sees fit" basically leaves it up to the nations anyways, so what is the point of the nations, if they want it legal, it will be legal, if not, it wont be. What is the point? It looks like a waste of time.

By the way, I think I stubbed my toe too. Can I have some Medical Marijuana? I think 50 pounds will also suffice, but I want another 50 for the ten minutes I had to go without it. Backpay if you will.

- Dict. Alex Arinelen

Already legal in Jaru..

Lots of people need to do some research.

Last year, tobacco killed over 400,000 people in the United States, according to the CDC. Arrests? Zero. Marijuana killed a grand total of no people in the US, but is credited with about 600,000 arrests in that same period. I see an interesting double standard.

I've seen listed in several places that, in all of medical literature, there has never been one recorded death from marijuana use. Sure, there are the idiots to drive under the influence and the like, but that's another issue entirely to most people.

Compared to many, many drugs that are on the street, marijuana is hardly addictive at all. There's not a very bad withdrawl, either, unless you're a total idiot and overdose on it -- which not many people do. The studies showing marijuana as a "gateway drug" have been coming under more and more fire recently as people actually start to scrutinize their data and do their own research.

What's the point of inprisoning so many people for a crime with no apparent victim? In California, at least, the average cost of keeping someone in prison for a year is almost $30,000. Over half of the people in prison in the United States have been convicted of drug related crimes. That's a crapload of money, and who's being hurt? Taxpayers. Whooo.

Considering the costs, why not just legalize, regulate, and TAX it all? Regardless of your opinion on drugs, the War on Drugs is quite clearly a fiscal failure.

As long as people make an educated choice and don't endanger or harm anyone, who are we to stop them from doing anything?

All that said, I'm not entirely convinced that this is an international issue. Ahem.

We agree with the honored member of Santin to a point, Yes the nead of research must be undertaken. We in Chumba, have legalised marijuana in the home, as long as its not taken in public un licenesed areas. But we must understand and assess the medical propperties the drug has.

Medicine in the western world has forgotten almost all it once knew about therapeutic properties of Marijuana, or Cannabis. Analgesia, anticonvulsant action, appetite stimulation, ataraxia, antibiotic prperties and low toxicity were desribed throughout medical literature, being in 1839, when O'Shaughnessy introduced cannabis to western pharmacopoeia.

As these findings were reported throughout western medicine, cannabis attained wide use. Cannabis therapy was described in most pharmacopoeial text as a treatment for a variety of disease conditions.

Medical science must agian confront the problems of cannabis insolubility in water and its variable strengths. The pharmaceutical industry, or even Govermant Medical bodies should take the intiative in starting basic research and clinical studies into purified congeners of Cannabis for chemical properties, pharmacologic qualities and therapeutic applications.

What category should I have put it under? None of the others involved drugs, that are currently illicit in most nations.

Technically, it would change how the game works then.

The design of the proposal specifically would lead to abuse (since it is recreational)

The only people who don't think it damages your brain are the people who use it...

The only people who don't think it damages your brain are the people who use it...

what drain bamage?