Tuesday, Feb. 24th: Alaska Marijuana Legalization Law Takes Effect

eNews Park Forest ^ | 23 Feb 2015

[OldNavyVet]

Reminds me of Prohibition days.

[ConservingFreedom]

The parallels are striking - for those with eyes to see.

[DiogenesLamp]

And Mr Dope pusher is crowing about more dope being made available.

[ConservingFreedom]

Any increase in availability is proportionately much less than the drop in criminal pot profits - which I am pleased about. Perhaps you feel differently.

[Wolfie]

Most of that has been legal for decades under Ravin v. State.

[ConservingFreedom]

Depends what the meaning of "most" is - Ravin didn't legalize commerce in marijuana.

[Wolfie]

My point is that Alaska hasn’t fallen into mass riots and hysteria despite being legal to grow and possess for all of these years.

[gundog]

More dope, lower price. Is it still going to be enough to to keep Mr. Pusher in business?

[nascarnation]

Dumb question but I see guys getting busted for grass on Alaska State Troopers show all the time. Is that staged?

[ConservingFreedom]

The Chicken Littles assure us that the sky will fall ... just give it enough time.

[DiogenesLamp]

The Chicken Littles assure us that the sky will fall ... just give it enough time.

When you've gotten mature enough to start viewing your history by centuries, you began to notice a lot of occasions in which fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

You are still in that little child "Libertarian" stage of understanding.

[Wolfie]

Not knowing the circumstances, hard to say. There are limits.

[varyouga]

Possession and growing was legal at HOME with certain limits. Perhaps it was because they had it outside.

[nascarnation]

Thanks, these are typically vehicle stops and searches.

[ConservingFreedom]

viewing your history by centuries, you began to notice a lot of occasions in which fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

Such as the various prohibitions aka criminal enrichment acts that this nation has enacted.

[monkeyshine]

So what happens if you have 1.01 ounces, or 4 plants, or if you give someone 7 immature plants?

Why did they bother with these caveats? How can you legalize something then restrict the quantity? Aside from being oxymoronic, how are people supposed to obtain it if you cannot import it, grow it, trade it, sell it, share it etc?

[taildragger]

What a mess, the evidence is out their it can lead to psychosis and can accelerate the onset of schizophrenia if one is genetically prone to it, yet we go head long, state by state into this madness that will further strain the federal and state coffers with an onslaught of increased mental illness? We are in the last days of Rome, I have no other explanation....

[sargon]

What a mess, the evidence is out their it can lead to psychosis and can accelerate the onset of schizophrenia if one is genetically prone to it, yet we go head long, state by state into this madness that will further strain the federal and state coffers with an onslaught of increased mental illness? We are in the last days of Rome, I have no other explanation....

It seems like the psychosis which weed causes accrues mainly to hysterical Prohibitionists.

Subjecting someone to prison for merely possessing the wrong plant, medicine, or liquid spirits is the height of nanny-state authoritarianism, and no amount of "what about the children" hand-wringing can ever excuse such Tyranny.

A government which can imprison you for possessing a plant is a government that is too big and with too much power.

Those who argue for such arbitrary law are using the same reasoning which the left uses in order to justify their various Tyrannies.

I categorically reject such authoritarian logic, from either side of the political spectrum.

When somebody directly infringes on somebody else's rights, via force, fraud, or negligence, that is when a crime has occurred, and then and only then is when criminal prosecution is warranted.

When it comes to the challenging, perilous notion of human freedom, warts and all, the Prohibitionist mind often seems more warped than the even the most despicable drug addict.

"Those who know what's best for us must rise and save us from ourselves."

[Ken H]

Last November, Alaskans voted 53-47% in favor of marijuana legalization...

That's quite a turnaround from 2004 when legalization lost 44-56%.