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Da_Vine
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Pot use recriminalized in Alaska
#5974774 - 08/17/06 11:45 PM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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The Associated Press | ADN.com | June 3, 2006
JUNEAU -- Possessing small amounts of marijuana, even in the privacy of the home, is illegal in Alaska -- at least for now.
Gov. Frank Murkowski on Friday signed a bill recriminalizing pot possession. The law will be challenged in court, according to the American Civil Liberties Union of Alaska, leading to a likely judicial review of Alaska's marijuana laws.
Another provision of the bill, which is not in dispute, would make it tougher to buy ingredients used in making methamphetamine.
In a press release, Murkowski said the state's current marijuana laws send the wrong message to Alaska's youths.
The governor is seeking to overturn the 30-year-old landmark Alaska Supreme Court decision that legalized the use of small amounts of marijuana.
While the court then ruled that the right to privacy was far more important than any harm that could result from use of the drug, Murkowski argues marijuana is a more dangerous drug than it was in the 1970s.
The ACLU of Alaska said it would file for immediate injunctive relief in Superior Court in Juneau on Monday.
Executive director Michael Macleod-Ball said the lawsuit also would seek a permanent injunction against the marijuana provisions of the law which he said run afoul of Alaskans' constitutional rights to privacy.
Under the new law, pot possession of 4 ounces or more is a felony.
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Re: Pot use recriminalized in Alaska [Re: Da_Vine]
#5974788 - 08/17/06 11:49 PM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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they need to make up their damn mind back and forth all the time im sure the cops are more confused than the people
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Re: Pot use recriminalized in Alaska [Re: CptnGarden]
#5974794 - 08/17/06 11:51 PM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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Hopefully Colorado will pull through....
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Re: Pot use recriminalized in Alaska [Re: SDP]
#5974815 - 08/18/06 12:00 AM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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THESE PEOPLE PISS ME OFF!!
What's the big fucking deal, anyway?
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CptnGarden
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Re: Pot use recriminalized in Alaska [Re: MOTH]
#5974852 - 08/18/06 12:17 AM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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the men who bang other men in the ass in prison are undercover cops, and this is just another way to get their men more ass.
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Re: Pot use recriminalized in Alaska [Re: CptnGarden]
#5974891 - 08/18/06 12:33 AM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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This is old news. This is dated June 3. The ACLU already overturned this months ago. It is still legal in the home in Alaska.
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Da_Vine
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Re: Pot use recriminalized in Alaska [Re: razer7echo]
#5974926 - 08/18/06 12:49 AM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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oops JUNEAU — In a landmark ruling, an Alaska state court judge has upheld adults' right to possess and use small amounts of marijuana within their homes. The American Civil Liberties Union, which challenged the law, said the ruling confirmed that the state constitution protects adults who use and possess marijuana in their homes from police surveillance, searches, arrest and prosecution.
"The drug war has wreaked havoc on the Bill of Rights and the U.S. Constitution, but fortunately many state constitutions still shield individuals from drug war excess," said Allen Hopper, an attorney with the ACLU Drug Law Reform Project. "This ruling is incredibly significant from a national perspective, because there are a number of states with similar privacy rights in their constitutions that may afford protections to adult marijuana users."
With the court's ruling, Alaska remains the only state in the nation in which adults are legally free to possess and use small amounts of marijuana within their homes.
"The state of Alaska has charted a different course from that of the federal government's failed policy on marijuana," said Michael MacLeod-Ball, Executive Director of the ACLU of Alaska. "This ruling affirms Alaska's commitment to fundamental privacy rights over reefer madness."
The ACLU filed suit against the State of Alaska after it passed a law earlier this year that would have re-criminalized adult use and possession of small amounts of marijuana within the home. Since 1975, the Alaska Supreme Court has repeatedly ruled that the state constitution's privacy provisions protect adults' possession of small amounts of marijuana in the home, and the state court's ruling relied in part on those decisions. A similar law was proposed in 2005 by Governor Frank Murkowski, but failed to pass following testimony by international, national and state scientific experts that adult use of marijuana is no more dangerous today than it was in 1975.
In the 1975 ruling, the Alaska Supreme Court ruled in Ravin v. State that the state constitution's right to privacy protects adults who use and possess marijuana within the home from criminal prosecution.
Judge Patricia Collins of the Juneau Superior Court relied on the Ravin decision to reaffirm that the relatively minor dangers associated with adult possession and use of small amounts of marijuana within the home do not justify government surveillance and searches of homes or criminal prosecution. Her ruling was issued late yesterday.
The State of Alaska argued that since the 1975 Ravin decision, marijuana has become more potent and dangerous, justifying a revisiting of the Supreme Court's previous ruling. Judge Collins disagreed, stating in her opinion that the "[Ravin] decision is law until and unless the supreme court takes contrary action."
my first bit of info i found was at a mj forum i got to it was one the the top stories sorry.
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Re: Pot use recriminalized in Alaska [Re: Da_Vine]
#5975293 - 08/18/06 07:10 AM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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Quote:
Murkowski argues marijuana is a more dangerous drug than it was in the 1970s.
I would like to see a scientific study showing marijuana today more 'dangerous' than pot of the 1970's. Sure it might be more POTENT but more DANGEROUS is a bullshit drug war propeganda phrase I'm tired of hearing this bullshit.
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Re: Pot use recriminalized in Alaska [Re: Da_Vine]
#5975295 - 08/18/06 07:12 AM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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Yay ACLU! Yay Alaska! Now 's anyone?
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Re: Pot use recriminalized in Alaska [Re: 76degrees]
#5978412 - 08/19/06 01:09 PM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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76degrees said: Yay ACLU! Yay Alaska! Now 's anyone?
I second that
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Re: Pot use recriminalized in Alaska [Re: Da_Vine]
#6760616 - 04/08/07 09:41 AM (16 years, 9 months ago) |
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More potent weed is less dangerous, because you dont have to inhale as much plant matter to get to the same level. i guess the only thing its more dangerous to is your supply of munchies.
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And to the multi-billion dollar prison-industrial complex. etc. etc. We are the food of the beast.
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