GA Resolution: Essential Medication Act

[Guy]

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Essential Medication Act
A resolution to ban, legalize, or encourage recreational drugs.

Category: Recreational Drug Use
Area of Effect: Legalize
Proposed by: Mousebumples


Description: THE WORLD ASSEMBLY:

UNDERSTANDS that each nation within this august body has its own individualized laws regarding recreational drug use inside its own borders.

RESPECTS the right of each nation to make such decisions due to the lack of international law on the subject.

REALIZES that some patients receive inadequate and/or substandard medical treatment due to the limitations of pharmacology and legal restrictions within their nation of residence.

BELIEVES that medical professionals should be able to prescribe evidence-based treatments for their patients’ use when standard courses of therapy prove to be ineffective or insufficient.

DEFINES “medically essential drug” (MED) as a medication or treatment that is necessary to improve management and/or treatment of a patient’s medical condition but is specially regulated and/or restricted within a given nation.

REQUIRES, at minimum, that member nations allow their citizens medicinal access and medicinal use of MEDs.

PERMITS member nations to implement any/all of the following restrictions on the medicinal access and use of MEDs within their sovereign borders:
• Patients may be required to try evidence-based standard course(s) of therapy for a sufficient duration to allow for adequate symptom control to be obtained. Patient-specific waivers must be available in the event that such trials would result in untenable adverse harm.
• Practitioners who prescribe MEDs may be required to obtain a special certification in order to ensure that MEDs are being used solely for medicinal purposes. The certification must have reasonable and attainable standards.
• Member nations may require MED dispensaries to institute reasonable security measures to prevent theft and/or unauthorized possession of MEDs.

CLARIFIES that nothing in this text limits a member state's ability to outlaw or legalize recreational use of MEDs or other drugs.

[Cerb]

This seems like a very weak resolution unless I am missing something.

I don't have any objections as it seems that I have the legal authority to ban any drug my administration deems as medically unsafe or that it has not yet assessed.

Unless I hear something persuasive I'm gonna go with Delegate's perogative.

[Kurdazistan]

I agree with Cerb.

Seems like we should of just had a Happy holiday no GA Resolution week. Voting Delegate's perogative.

[Dinarii]

Agreed. Delegate's Perogative it is

[Sionis Prioratus]

Yes! Yes, top to bottom and backwards! Very much approved.

[La Vida De Sangre]

A good idea and a well written resolution.
I'll be voting FOR.

[Mousebumples]

Hey, guys! *waves* As the author, Guy invited me to come over and "argue my case" for this proposal. So far, you guys seem to be in favor, which I greatly appreciate. If you have questions, etc., please feel free to let me know. (Sionis and Guy were both somewhat involved with the drafting, so they may be able to help out with clarifications, if I'm not handy, too. Lots of work coming up during the At Vote phase.)

For the record: I wasn't planning to submit until 2011, due to personal RL time constraints. However, a possibly contradictory proposal was making it's way towards quorum, so I had to jump in there first, so I wouldn't have to do a complete rewrite. Otherwise, yes ... Just letting the holidays pass without new legislation would have worked for me too.

Thanks for the support, 10KI!

[ImperialPoland]

FOR

a very carefully written proposal. As for those who question the strength of the resolution, my feeling is that I'd rather have a "weak" resolution pass than an aggressive one (mind you that isn't my only reason for voting for this proposal).

[Anime Daisuki]

I don't really see the point of this.