Alaska becomes 3rd state with legal marijuana

The Korea Times / The Associated Press ^ | February 23, 2015

[2ndDivisionVet]

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Smoking, growing and possessing marijuana becomes legal in America’s wildest state Tuesday, thanks to a voter initiative aimed at clearing away 40 years of conflicting laws and court rulings.

Making Alaska the third state to legalize recreational marijuana was the goal of a coalition including libertarians, rugged individualists and small-government Republicans who prize the privacy rights enshrined in the state’s constitution....

[A CA Guy]

Great, a lack of sleep and a brain changing drug. What could go wrong?

[Steely Tom]

Whatever gets you through the night, Alaska.

[faithhopecharity]

gee I wish I learned how to do ‘photoshopping’

get a copy of that already=faked picture
of the polar bear on a melting iceberg

and stuff a weed in his mouth!

ha!

(he may as well get high if he’s destined to just sink away soon anyway!)

[Render]

Good for them.

[LeoWindhorse]

Matanuska Thunder .... coming soon to a neighborhood near you

[GeronL]

sad state of society

[RKBA Democrat]

Good. I look forward to it being legalized in several other states.

[43north]

None of this legalization crap will end well no matter what dopester Freepers say.

[Ken H]

Good. I look forward to it being legalized in several other states.

Demographics virtually guarantee it. Opposition is concentrated in the oldest groups, while support is concentrated in the youngest. Exit polls from the Alaska mj vote demonstrate this point.

AGES ==> YES / NO

18-29 => 60% / 40%

30-44 => 60% / 40%

45-64 => 49% / 51%

65+ ==> 41% / 59%

http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/2014/AK/I1/exitpoll

[zipper]

Great. Now instead of having to deal with hundreds of drunk Eskimos on the streets of Ancharage after they cash their annual oil revenue check from the state gubmint, there will instead be hundreds of drunk, stoned Eskimos. What could go wrong?

[ConservingFreedom]

instead of having to deal with hundreds of drunk Eskimos on the streets of Ancharage after they cash their annual oil revenue check from the state gubmint, there will instead be hundreds of drunk, stoned Eskimos.

A shift from booze to pot will be an improvement - alcohol more systematically leads to violent behavior, and there is no such thing as "THC poisoning" equivalent to alcohol poisoning.

[ConservingFreedom]

a lack of sleep

?

[A CA Guy]

22 hour of bright light at certain times of the year.

[zipper]

A shift from booze to pot will be an improvement - alcohol more systematically leads to violent behavior, and there is no such thing as "THC poisoning" equivalent to alcohol poisoning.

You don't know any Eskimos.

Or perhaps you ARE one.

[GeronL]

THC poisoning? maybe not, but people who are given pot-laced brownies and have had no prior use of pot are often hospitalized for toxic reactions.

[ConservingFreedom]

people who are given pot-laced brownies and have had no prior use of pot

By definition this can happen once at most to any particular person. A bigger concern is the ongoing enrichment of criminals by pot criminalization.

[GenXteacher]

Just another sign of a crumbling civilization.