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JUNEAU -- State officials, desperate to overturn Alaska court rulings that at-home pot is legal here, took their case to the Legislature on Monday. [...] The state Supreme Court in September let stand a lower court ruling that at-home adult possession of pot is protected under the strong right to privacy from government interference guaranteed in the Alaska Constitution. [...] Alaska legislators are not pro-pot, but some were startled Monday at the state's presentation of statistics purporting to link marijuana to violent crime. "I used to understand that smoking grass made people mellow out," said Eagle River Sen. Fred Dyson,...

Lancaster County Sheriff's deputies have arrested a father and grandfather of a Lincoln boy on suspicion of felony child abuse. The alleged abuse was blowing marijuana smoke in the face of a 5-year-old boy. According to a sheriff's office report and Sheriff Terry Wagner, here's what happened: When the boy's mother, who lives in Crete, picked him up Friday for a weekend visitation, the boy smelled like marijuana. The boy said his grandfather had held him and blew marijuana smoke in his face, forcing him to inhale. The boy said he did not like the smoke in his face, but...

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Rabid drug-warrior Bob Barr and the equally avid, though low-key, drug warrior John Linder are in a dead-heat Republican primary this Tuesday in Georgia's newly drawn 7th Congressional District. The question is, if Barr loses how much credit can the national Libertarian Party claim? The LP's fetchingly named "Incumbent Killer Strategy" has -- with good reason -- targeted Barr as the drug war's point man. So the party has purchased nearly $50,000 of airtime on metro Atlanta cable stations (with a few ads on broadcast Fox and NBC slated for this final, pre-primary weekend) for a wrenching, 30-second ad featuring...