GA Resolution: Drug Trafficking Act

[Ananke II]

Drug Trafficking Act
A resolution to improve world security by boosting police and military budgets.

Category: International Security
Strength: Mild
Proposed by: Enn


Description: The General Assembly,

Recognising the right of nations to legalise, illegalise, restrict or tax recreational drugs as they see fit, within the bounds of any past or future WA resolutions concerning such substances,

Aware that nations with widely differing policies on recreational drugs may share borders,

Conscious of the high priority many nations place on maintaining strong border control,

Asserting that nations on both sides of any international border are equally responsible for the prevention of the illegal trafficking of any goods, in either direction, across said border,

Recognising the right of nations to punish, according to their own laws, persons convicted of the production, transport, purchase or supply of illegal substances within their borders,

Worried that lack of accord over such issues may lead to conflict and division between WA member states, persecution of innocent states or individuals ostensibly to prevent traffic of recreational drugs, and/or aggressive support of illegal traffickers in order to strain, subvert and destabilise national law enforcement agencies,

1. Defines, for the purposes of this resolution, drugs as chemical substances that affect the central nervous system, causing changes in behavior and/or potential addiction, and defining all drugs as being recreational, unless they are widely recognised within individual nations as legitimate medical substances and used in a manner deemed appropriate by medical experts, or they are used for a recognised sacramental purpose;

2. Demands that all nations, in taking action to suppress illegal drug trafficking, recognise the sovereignty of other nations; neither pressuring said nations to adopt changes in their recreational drugs policy, nor violating international borders in military or policing actions, covert or otherwise, without consent; nor using domestic recreational drugs policy as justification for any breach of human rights or international law;

3. Requires that no nation take action against recreational drug production by biological, chemical or biochemical methods, such as the introduction of crop-destroying pests or of abortive strains, which may be judged likely to affect the production of nations wherein said crops are legal, or likely to create health risks;

4. Requests that the law enforcement, customs and border officials of any nations sharing borders cooperate and share information, as judged relevant by both nations, in order to better prevent illegal traffic;

5. Urges that all nations producing recreational drugs closely monitor and publish records dealing with the production capacity and exchange record of any body or individual producing, transporting or purchasing such substances other than for personal consumption;

6. Recognises the right of vessels, engaged in the transport of recreational drugs legal in both exporting and importing countries, to use international territory without threat of impediment or harassment from other nations;

7. Reaffirms the right of nations to monitor vessels using international territory in order to prevent illicit activity;

8. Recognises the duty of both exporting and importing nations to closely monitor said goods at point of departure and arrival;

9. Recognises the right of nations to deny entry to vessels transporting recreational drugs.

Co-authored by Rehochipe

[Guy]

It's a load of shrubbery.

[Ananke II]

Remember to vote in the poll then.

[Echolilia]

Asserting that nations on both sides of any international border are equally responsible for the prevention of the illegal trafficking of any goods, in either direction, across said border,

So, if slavery is legal in a bordering nation, your nation is obligated to prevent escapees from crossing the border? That assertion is shrubbery.

The rest of the act only only contains requirements in points 2 and 3, and those are essentially to keep nations from interfering with other nations that allow drug production and use. The wording of point 7 is a little troubling.

Overall, I'd say yes.

[Minurva]

I don't think slavery was in mind when this was written, and point 7 is going to happen regardless. My only problem with it is "increasing military budget". A small change in wording would fix the slavery problem. I need some time to think about it as I can see too much abuse with military funding happening.

[Ultavia]

I vote yes upon this. It would be of great considerable risk to have recreational drugs to be trafficked to an area where they would be illegal, in the sense of being inadvertently responsible for raising the crime rate in another region.

[Markanite]

I'm going to vote yes

[Elite]

Usually I go delegate's in GA, no changes here.

[Eldine]

Eldine votes "yes".

[Echolilia]

"Drug Trafficking Act" was passed 4,391 votes to 1,623.

[Ananke II]

Final tally: 7 for, 2 against, 2 Delegate's prerogative.

I cast my vote for.