division_name: Drugs (Sentencing and Commission of Inquiry) Bill
motion: <p class="" pid="a.553.7/1" pwmotiontext="yes">I beg to move, That the Bill be now read a Second time.</p>
  
  <p class="" pid="a.553.7/2" pwmotiontext="yes">It is with great pleasure that I present the Bill to the House. The use of drugs in this country has reached crisis levels in parts of our society and it affects us all, whether directly, through family members who are caught in the cycle of addiction, or indirectly, through crime that is fuelled by people's need to buy more drugs. All that is going on against the background of a Government who have sent all the wrong signals on drugs. The reclassification of drugs such as cannabis has sent those wrong signals throughout the country and many people now believe that it is safe to use cannabis. The aim of the Bill is to redress those problems, to give more powers to the police and the courts to combat our drug culture, and to look into the effects of cannabis so that the Government can see that the drug that they have gone soft on is actually quite dangerous and harmful.</p>
  
  <p pid="a.586.4/1" pwmotiontext="yes"><i>Question put,</i> That the Bill be now read a Second time:&#8212;</p>
  
  <p pid="a.586.4/2" pwmotiontext="yes"><i>The House divided:</i> Ayes 13, Noes 11.</p>