JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Alaska on Tuesday became the third U.S. state to legalize the recreational use of marijuana, but organizers don't expect any public celebrations since it remains illegal to smoke marijuana in public.
In the state's largest city, Anchorage police officers are ready to start handing out $100 fines to make sure taking a toke remains something to be done behind closed doors.
Placing Alaska in the same category as Washington state and Colorado with legal marijuana was the goal of a coalition including libertarians, rugged individualists and small-government Republicans who prize the privacy rights enshrined in the Alaska state constitution.
When they voted 53-47 percent last November to legalize marijuana use by adults in private places, they left many of the details to lawmakers and regulators to sort out.
That has left confusion on many matters.
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5 comments:
That's because most of their citizens, especially those of Eskimo decent, are nothing but druggies. It is costing the state a fortune for the ASP to arrest these criminals and the courts to process them.
@6:15 PM I watch Alaska State Troopers and that is all they have in Alaska.
6:15 & 6:43
You are both very narrow minded ignorant posters and nothing you perceive about Alaska is near to truth.
:15 must be a cop and :43 a wanna be.
Or are you just under the influence of alcohol?
6:55--
Ditto!!
6:15--
It's descent. Marijuana is a plant, not a drug. Our government has classified it as such. Have another drink, it's worse for you & people die from drinking-related illnesses all the time, & don't even get me started on drunk drivers!! But it & cigaretttes are OK with our, most of which are supposedly to make people want to buy them less. Ya know, 'cause they care for you! leaders because of the ridiculous taxes on them
Alaska is full of hardened conservatives. The conservatives down here don't have the balls to legalize it.
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