Mr. President, the
Smack Ain't Whack Act of 2014 has passed the Senate.
2. Section 2 of the Comprehensive Drug Reform Act of 2013 is hereby amended to read as follows:
Section 2: Hard Drug Legalization1. Existing criminal penalties established by the federal government concerning the sale of heroin, morphine, methadone, opium, amphetamine, ketamine, PCP, cocaine and methamphetamine and the substances, plants, or chemicals needed for their processing, shall be abolished throughout the Republic of Atlasia. Regional governments shall henceforth have all authority over policy concerning the sale of the substances mentioned in Subsection 1 of Section 2 of this Act.
2. No Region may, however, enact any law providing for the commercial sale of the substances mentioned in Subsection 1 of Section 2 to persons under the age of sixteen.
3. All persons currently serving time in prison for the possession, transportation, sale, or consumption of the substances mentioned in Subsection 1, who have not committed any other crime, and who have not already been transferred to rehabilitation centers (as per the Comprehensive Drug Reform Act of 2013) to fully deal with the scope of their addiction are hereby granted amnesty. Those currently in rehabilitation programs shall be given the option of choosing to continue said programs or return home, effective upon the passage of this legislation.
Section 3: Implementation Unless otherwise specified herein, the provisions of this legislation shall take full effect January 1, 2015.[/quote]
