ACT on Campus challenges Young Progressives to debate. This April Fools Day the government is playing a cruel joke on hundreds of thousands of New Zealanders but nobody is laughing. The actions of 400,000 people have today become illegal as Parliament's ban on Benzylpiperazine, or BZP, comes into effect. ACT on Campus says it is time for Jim Anderton's youth wing to defend their principles and debate the merits of prohibition. ACT on Campus President Mike Bridge said: "If Jim Anderton is so confident that prohibition will work with party pills then I am sure his hordes of young supporters will be only too happy to argue that the same will work with alcohol and tobacco." Party Pills containing BZP have claimed less lives than peanut butter, in fact there are no confirmed fatalities resulting from the consumption of BZP alone. ACT on Campus challenges the Young Progressives to debate the proposition that banning alcohol and tobacco would be a good move. ACT on Campus will argue against the proposition. Prohibition did not work during the 1930s and it will not work today. "ACT on Campus feels that Jim Anderton has alienated any young supporters that he may have had with his irrational crusade against BZP. If this is the case then we would welcome Jim consulting with his caucus and finding a suitable replacement, even if this does involve a wig, some 'hip' clothes and a crash course in the language used by younger people. We will debate them any time anywhere."