Marijuana bill clears Alaska House (recriminalization goes to governor)

[struggle4progress]

MATT VOLZ
Associated Press

JUNEAU, Alaska - ... The bill was approved by the Senate last month and now goes to Gov. Frank Murkowski to sign into law. Murkowski sought to change Alaska's law on marijuana possession, which is considered the most liberal in the country ...

The House voted 21-17 in favor of the amended bill.

Murkowski is seeking to overturn the landmark Alaska Supreme Court decision that legalized the use of small amounts of marijuana.

The court concluded in 1975 that Alaskans' constitutional right to privacy outweighed any harm that might occur from using a small amount of marijuana in the home. State legislators set that amount at 4 ounces in 1982 ...

http://www.montereyherald.com/mld/montereyherald/news/nation/14514821.htm

[uppityperson]

1. hell, sorry AK

it always seemed like a good bonus for people living in AK

[Mythsaje]

2. Hmmm...

Well, I can expect a ranting e-mail from my buddy in Alaska over this. He's been fighting this whole thing tooth-and-nail since it first raised its ugly head. He's furious about it.

[pfitz59]

3. What'd he expect?

AK has gone to hell! (Both) Murkowski's are scum!

[Mythsaje]

4. That's what he says...

Actually, I think he uses language like fascist pig scumbag, or something like that. He's a big anti drug-war activist up there.

[OrangeCountyDemocrat]

5. Damn Pot Heads....

They're the real problem in Amerika. Better get right on that.

Can't have people relieving their stress by smoking a J at home. They can be paranoid, just not that kind of paranoid.

[izzie]

6. Having lived in Alaska I see no reason that they can not have pot.

In fact greenhouses used to be a nice thing to add to your home. I hate to tell you but the Southern Churches moved in when I lived their and said they would run the state.

[saigon68]

7. I wonder if the Church Leaders Buy $10.00 Hookers?

After Swaggart's sermonic confession, a prostitute named Debra Murphree turned up in West Palm Beach, Fla., and claimed to be the woman in the photos. Interviewed by WVUE-TV of New Orleans, she said she had had a yearlong series of motel meetings with Swaggart, during which no intercourse had occurred. She added that she customarily posed naked for him, and on one occasion, he asked her to wear a dress but no underwear and drive around with him. The world- renowned man of God was "kind of perverted to talk about the kinds of things they talked about," she said. "I wouldn't want him around my children."

The Washington Post picked up stories that Swaggart would often cruise the New Orleans motel strip in his Lincoln Town Car, sometimes rigged out in such disguises as hats, sunglasses and headbands. At motels, sources said, he always registered in the woman's name.

[Kolesar]

9. "they would run the state"

Wow. I had no idea. I thought the populace was rather insular and uninformed when I vacationed there in 1995, but I had no idea there was a Southern Church take over. They have been effective in dominating politics in my county in Ohio.

[izzie]

15. One story I recall

A friend of mine at college had a 'born again' in class who had his Church leader come to class as he did not like what they were teaching. We all thought it was sort of funny but it went on at the college and teachers had to stop the peaching to kids in working studio type classes, which I saw first hand. The big churches were pretty well known for this endless push to clean up the state. New rules etc. Course that has always happened in a wide open society when families moved in. Much like what happened in the old West. I frankly do not much care what people do if they let others also do as they like. To a point. I really do not like to be on the road with drunks. I care little if you get drunk but please do not get into a 6000 lb. car and aim it at me. I was never up set that almost every one used pot. That was their business.

[VegasWolf]

10. What Would Jesus Smoke? nt

[ixion]

8. "The bill says marijuana is...

...a more potent and dangerous drug than it was 30 years ago."


Uh, well, that's a big fat lie, considering the active ingredient (THC) is freakin' NON TOXIC, unlike alcohol, nicotine and caffeine.

That is: it is IMPOSSIBLE to overdose on pot. That's a fact.

The only thing that's 'more dangerous' are the cluttered minds of the fossils sitting in positions of power. :grr:

[reprobate]

11. Sure you can OD on pot. It's called falling asleep. Terrible consequences

[Wise Doubter]

12. I HATE the fact that they are always trying to connect

Marijuana to hard core drugs and narcotics like Meth.

The Senate tacked on the marijuana provisions to legislation seeking to curb the manufacture of methamphetamine.


"Tacked on" ?? WTF? why not have its own piece of legislation

[rodeodance]

13. Jerking the people around-first no, then yes, now no. all on the whims of

those who want to control others.

[ecoalex]

14. Canada too, GD Conservatives, heads up their asses, Amphetemine way worse

[ktlyon]

16. and every day I see diet and other drugs advertised on TV

just take our pill it will make your life perfect if you can stand the side effects
When will we reread the Declaration of Independence and The Constitution? pursuit of happiness they said... Right to choose ...right to privacy... secure in our possessions... unreasonable seach...

They have no authority
Release the political prisoners held on drug charges
Freedom Freedom FREEDOM
WHEN WILL WE HAVE FREEDOM?

[sweetheart]

17. When you reread it, wonder what is made of

And go have a smoke of that very stuff celibrating
the fact that the constitution IS cannabis.
The 9th amendment secures the right to eat or
smoke anything on earth, just like the
unenumerated right of the time they were
smoking cannabis and writing on hemp paper
pipe dreams of freedom.

So alaska has gone nazi too....

Now the Alaska police will become evil too, and they,
if they are civil, will protect the constitution,
from all those happy people who would rather smoke it. :-)