NationStates Jolt Archive

These is currently a proposal waiting to achieve quorum with a discription thusly phrased:
I am sick to my teeth of all of these proposals encouraging recreational drug use. I am so sick of it i have decided to submit this proposal. OUTLAW DRUGS COMPLETELY. They are in no way good. While they may give a person a few hours of pleasure they are killing brain cells at an alarming rate. and after all when we die (if ever) it will be these junkies that will be taking over. i am proposing that we BAN ALL DRUGS. Any violation of this rule should be punishable by death or a public flogging!
I urge you to read this proposal carefully. This states that ALL drugs should be banned, including those which not only do no harm, but those used for treating illness.
I ask that those people who have already approved this proposal reconsider, as we cannot allow this proposal to go to vote.

Same with this one:
BAN DRUGS
Description: Drugs Should be banned alltogether. Even drugs from a chemist should be banned. We all need to endorse natural remidies and crystan healing.
Drugs ruin the brain, stunt growth, and kills unborn children. If you dont want to live your life slowly killing yourself then vote. If you want to life a long heathy life then vote.


Desdemona,
UN representative for The Black New World.

Don't you realize that some drugs help people gain a better quality of life? If a woman who has bone cancer can't eat, walk or talk because of the pain she's going through and medicinal marijuana helps her, shouldn't she be allowed to live out her final days in dignity?

Don't you realize that some drugs help people gain a better quality of life? If a woman who has bone cancer can't eat, walk or talk because of the pain she's going through and medicinal marijuana helps her, shouldn't she be allowed to live out her final days in dignity?

I AGREE!

I say ban them all and let the nations sort out what they want to legalize after that.

I say ban them all and let the nations sort out what they want to legalize after that.

Er.. if you ban them there's no way that nations can legalize them.

I agree with the anti-drug position. However, you need to word it more carefully. A drug is defined as: Any non-food substance that affects the way your mind and body work. So from that I could say that air is a drug. And because I breathed I was sentenced to death. But aside from that small technicality, a damn good proposal.

Alcohol is an anodyne: banned.
Caffeine is a stimulant: banned.
Chocolate is an aphrodesiac and mood elevator: banned.

Peppermint has been used pharmaceutically; so have hot pepper, rose hips, comfrey, chamomile, and lavendar.

Ban them all.

Can you see the trend of this thinking?

Doesn't the banning of drugs override one's natural rights? If it's harming nobody else, what's the problem? If you want to take away the citizens' rights, go ahead, but those who claim to be a democracy, or "land of the free" are hypocritical in the banning of drugs. Legalize the illicit drugs, and it's harder for children to get them. Plus, it boosts the economy. Plus, it reduces crime. Plus, it saves lives.