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ODEN restoration campaign starts BubblingSocialist Party of Kalistan calls restoration of the Treaty its "most important domestic legislative priority"
Kaliburg, Ananto
September 18, 4681


Speaker of the SP, Sister Edwards gets "lifted" in a new pro-ODEN campaign

In a wide campaign led by various marijuana growing associations across Kalistan and joined by the Socialist Party of Kalistan, public support for the revival of the Organization of Drug Exporting Nations treaty is growing in Kalistan.  The SP has declared it to be their most important domestic legislative priority for the coming elections, and has decided to run on the promise to use its votes to bring the matter to the Assembly.

Sister Rebecca Edwards-Bennots, Speaker of the SP is featured on a number of the posters publicizing the campaign.  "The Socialist Party is a long standing supporter of the ODEN and the dual economy.  We believe that there is wide support in the Republic for the restoration of the Treaty, and while militias will be a tougher lift, and will require a unification of the Nationalist vote, we think ODEN, which is noting but a positive for the Kalistani economy is an easier project for our reorganized Party to tackle.  We think that there is a good economic case to be made for ODEN, and we also believe that the Treaty helps protect the society from overdoses and illegal drug activity.  Increased exports to the world, as well as reduction in crime and strain on the medical system are our major selling points, and the Socialist Party has been asked to dedicate its full efforts to rejoining ODEN."

Edwards, the photogenic 26 year old Brethernist, is the perfect candidate for the ODEN campaign propaganda.  She is known to completely abstain from drug and alcohol use, but says she believes that people should be free to make that choice for themselves the same way she has.  "ODEN works, because those drugs which are unregulated in Kalistan, they breed violent crime as one black market actor fights against another, and both peddle substandard and often dangerous versions of the same thing that ODEN could sell in a controlled environment."  Additionally, she said, when the black market sells the drugs, none of that money comes back to Kalistan at all. "Taxation and regulation is a financial boon for our treasury, as well as a benefit to the citizens."

The ODEN campaign will run over the next year and will feature retro themed-art, provided by the Beardog Collective, an artist collective based in Eveari, Ananto who have donated their time and materials to the effort.