Strength: Mild
CONCURRING with past policy that "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", and adopting the definition of recreational 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;"
RECOGNIZING the continuing economic and military damage done near national borders due to recreational drug smuggling, where a disparity in drug wholesale prices provides economic motive for violence and the criminal domination of whole communities,
PERCEIVING a lack of international planning in regulating the price of recreational drugs, though drug smuggling is an international problem,
1. Empowers the International Drug Education Agency (IDEA) to solicit data and compile yearly a set of best estimates of recreational drug prices worldwide,
2. Empowers IDEA to compile yearly, for each class of recreational drug, a list of nations with drug wholesale prices more than one standard deviation above and below the WA average, which shall be defined here as "potential drug consumers" and "potential drug suppliers", respectively. Nations will be defined here as "severe cases" where prices are more than two standard deviations above or below the WA average.
3. Empowers IDEA to request and compile statistics yearly for each class of drug regarding the total expenditure for prohibition of drug supply versus the prohibition of drug demand in the aforementioned two categories of nations. Drug supply prohibition shall include but may not be limited to crop eradication, aerial crop surveillance, enforcement operations targeting supply of lights, fertilizer, and electricity, and expenses pertaining to the arrest, prosecution, imprisonment and/or other punishments of drug manufacturers. Drug demand prohibition shall include but may not be limited to the cost of buyer "stings", suppression of street-level and personal mail order sales, expenses created by placing or permitting fake drug sellers, mandated drug testing. mandated or free drug treatment programs, and imprisonment or other punishments inflicted on recreational drug consumers and retailers who directly interact with individual consumers.
4. Strongly urges potential drug consumers to adjust spending priorities to fund suppression of drug demand in excess of funding for suppression of drug supply. Further urges severe cases to fund suppression of drug demand to at least twice the level of suppression of drug supply.
5. Strongly urges potential drug suppliers to adjust spending priorities to fund suppression of drug supply in excess of funding for suppression of drug demand. Further urges severe cases to fund suppression of drug supply to at least twice the level of suppression of drug demand.
6. Respecting the right of any nation to prohibit or permit recreational drugs as a matter of sovereignty, reserves the right of the WA to take additional action to mandate adjustment in national spending priorities. This shall only occur in severe cases, where these spending recommendations have not been implemented voluntarily within three years, subject to the sense of the delegates that a severe smuggling problem in fact exists and that no satisfactory progress toward resolution is being made. In keeping with precedent, the WA shall have no authority to increase or decrease overall drug spending or to affect the legality of any substance, but shall solely demand change in the ratio between two categories of enforcement spending.
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This draft, and the idea behind it, are submitted freely by New Ma'adim to the public domain and is free for discussion, use, copying, and modification at will by any WA member for any purpose. Attribution may be required by the rules, but is waived by New Ma'adim to the maximum extent permissible by the rules.
