NationStates Jolt Archive

Note that this draft was submitted to the proposal queue as is to assess support for something like it among the delegates.

Recreational Drug Act

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


Category: Recreational Drug Use
Decision: Promote
Proposed By: Texan Hotrodders

Description:

The NationStates United Nations,

AWARE of the potential problems with the widespread and unregulated legalization and use of powerful recreational drugs.

BELIEVING that sovereign persons should be free to exercise their own liberty in matters concerning their own body.

ENCOURAGES all member nations to make laws that will allow for individual liberty concerning recreational drugs and appropriately address the potential problems with the use of said drugs.

Approved. (Heh. I like saying that.)

I'm not sure I agree with the term 'sovereign persons' - I would suggest changing this the next time around. While people have control over their body, I don't feel that it amounts to actual sovereignty.

Approved. (Heh. I like saying that.)

I'm not sure I agree with the term 'sovereign persons' - I would suggest changing this the next time around. While people have control over their body, I don't feel that it amounts to actual sovereignty.

Thanks! :)

And I think I may consider taking out the "sovereign" bit, since this is the second time someone has objected to the term and I don't feel like explaining my political philosophy every time it gets brought up. :p

Oh I like the use of "sovereign" for people.

I guess I'd be in favour, though I'd prefer something more forceful. But regardless of the strength of the proposal, I think there ought to be a a specific and strong urging that people be educated (or at least be given the opportunity to easily access information) on the effects of drugs - and that this information must reflect the widely-agreed opinions of reputable impartial scientists with expertise in the field of psychoactive substances.

Oh and I don't think "promote" is the correct category - to me, that would be an endorsement of use, not an endorsement of legalisation (e.g. a proposal saying "let's use soma to keep our people under control" or one saying "let's encourage our people to take drugs to generate revenue from the industry").

Approved. I never thought I'd get to say that about a 'Recreational Drugs Use' proposal.

_Myopia_, is there actually a viable alternative to 'Promote'?

Varia Yefremova
Speaker to the UN

Approved, and the "sovereign" bit's good. Leave it in.

I support this proposal. Although I'd personally have written something that was more of a United Nations mandate, attempts to work out an appropriate level of detail in a United Nations resolution to achieve the appropriate ends would be very difficult.

[Lord] Michael Evif
Goobergunchian UN Ambassador

Oh I like the use of "sovereign" for people.

I guess I'd be in favour, though I'd prefer something more forceful. But regardless of the strength of the proposal, I think there ought to be a a specific and strong urging that people be educated (or at least be given the opportunity to easily access information) on the effects of drugs - and that this information must reflect the widely-agreed opinions of reputable impartial scientists with expertise in the field of psychoactive substances.

I certainly have non problem with adding a clause about education. Good idea.

Approved. I never thought I'd get to say that about a 'Recreational Drugs Use' proposal.

_Myopia_, is there actually a viable alternative to 'Promote'?

Varia Yefremova
Speaker to the UN

Not really. I checked. But I suppose I could try to reword it to make it better fit the category somehow.

_Myopia_, is there actually a viable alternative to 'Promote'?

I don't know. The recreational drugs categories don't really lend themselves to this "tread lightly" approach. I guess I'd check with a mod between "legalise" and "promote". Texan Hotrodders, I wouldn't try and re-write it to make it more fitting to "promote" unless a mod says you have to for it to be legal. Going anywhere near an endorsement of drugs is going to make this a lot harder to pass - and would be wrong anyway.

Thanks for accepting my suggestion!

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

We're a little confused here. Ban or legalize? Which is it? If it's both, then what is the point of the proposal?

We're a little confused here. Ban or legalize? Which is it? If it's both, then what is the point of the proposal?
This is, regrettably, how the category is presented in the proposal submission screen. Not much that the 'rodders can do about that, I'm afraid.

Varia Yefremova
Speaker to the UN

After looking at the low number of approvals the draft got, I'm reluctant to bother putting it on my list of resolutions to pass or make any further efforts on it, but I appreciate y'alls help with this.

Minister of UN Affairs
Edward Jones

The Republic of BlueTiger feels that, had this been worded better, it would have passed.

We feel that insted of "promting" the use, you should be leaglizing it, but also include education anout it. This should be propsed as a better alternitive to making the use illegal, and trying to educate because some people (namely the rebels without a cause) will feel that you're just trying to tell them what to do and ingnore you. If, however, you were to legalize it, and educate people about the uses of it, then what you'r telling them is "Listen, you can do what you want, but if you do smoke weed, then you're gonna get real sick."

If you truly feel you should give up on this I will try to get my deleget to draft something on the subject.

Sincerly,

Allan Smith
The Republic of BlueTiger's Deputy of Foreign Affairs

BlueTiger']The Republic of BlueTiger feels that, had this been worded better, it would have passed.

We feel that insted of "promting" the use, you should be leaglizing it, but also include education anout it. This should be propsed as a better alternitive to making the use illegal, and trying to educate because some people (namely the rebels without a cause) will feel that you're just trying to tell them what to do and ingnore you. If, however, you were to legalize it, and educate people about the uses of it, then what you'r telling them is "Listen, you can do what you want, but if you do smoke weed, then you're gonna get real sick."

If you truly feel you should give up on this I will try to get my deleget to draft something on the subject.

Sincerly,

Allan Smith
The Republic of BlueTiger's Deputy of Foreign Affairs

Feel free to draft legislation on this topic, just don't expect me to support or write a proposal that would attempt the legalization of recreational drugs. I can't, given my national sovereignty perspective.

Minister of UN Affairs
Edward Jones