1st MILLERLAND CONGRESS

S. 126-66
Title of Bill:
Reduce Potheads and Crackheads Act
Principal Author(s): Chuck Wong, Jeffrey Wang, Jill Ueng, Jonathan Wang, and Ally
Shang
Sponsored by: Millerland

BE IT ENACTED BY THE MILLERLAND CONGRESS

1 SECTION 1: FINDINGS
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Congress makes the following findings:
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1) The passage of the Act finds that increasing education and awareness of the
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harmfulness of narcotics and drug addiction will effectively bolster the prevention of
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citizens become drug addicts.
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2) Depressants, opioid and antidepressants are responsible for more overdose
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deaths (45%) than cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine and amphetamines (39%)
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combined.
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3) Of the 1.4 million drug-related emergency room admissions in 2005, 598,542
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were associated with abuse of pharmaceuticals alone or with other drugs.
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4) Teens who abuse prescription drugs are twice as likely to use alcohol, five
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times more likely to use marijuana, and twelve to twenty times more likely to use
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illegal street drugs such as heroin, Ecstasy and cocaine than teens who do not abuse
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prescription drugs.
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5) The use of medicinal marijuana should be allowed as it is a step into
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advancing Americas medicinal front, and that with more strict policy on whom may
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receive the prescription may effectively reduce the amount drug abusers.
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19 SECTION 2: PURPOSE
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This bill provides that the emphasis of drug regulation be shifted from
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indictment and punishment to prevention and education, research on common
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addictive drugs be publicised and increased, the public be educated for the purpose
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of preventing harmful drug addiction, and unfair incarceration be reduced and
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rehabilitation boosted instead.
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26 SECTION 3: GENERAL PROVISIONS
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1. Channel funds from prison security (especially those primarily concerned
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with drug owners) into drug rehabilitation centers and research.
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2. Increase government funding into drug education, and establish that drug
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education is mandatory in all public high schools.

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3. Increase government funding into research on drug addiction and
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rehabilitation.
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4. Allow the use of narcotics be prescribed by doctors, with the fit integrity
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requirements, and increased research on its use in medicine and possible side effects
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as a drug.
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5. Maximum sentence for illegal drug possession (unless associated with drug
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trafficking) across all states will be held at 2 years.
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40 SECTION 4: DEFINITIONS
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Prevention: Reducing the percentage of the American population addicted
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to/in danger of being addicted to drugs.
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Indictment: Punishment by fines or incarceration.
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3.
Drug Education: Increased awareness of the harmful effects of drugs and
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the likely consequence of becoming addicted to drugs.
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Integrity requirements: Doctors may be liable to dishonestly prescribing
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patients with drugs, so with an integrity title, only honest doctors will be allowed to
prescribe narcotics to patients.
5. Rehabilitation center: Centers providing inpatient and outpatient care for
drug addicts, whether through detox, counselling, therapy, and recovery, etc.
Citations:
//www.raps.org/focus-online/news/news-article-view/article/2197/democtic-republican-political-platformscontrast-approaches-to-fda-regulation.aspx

http://www.criticism.com/policy/democrats-drug-policy.php
http://www.drugfreeworld.org/drugfacts/prescription/abuse-international-statistics.html