Alaska Legalizes Recreational Marijuana, Prompting Sarah Palin’s Town To Ban Pot Brownies

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On Tuesday, Alaska became the third state in the U.S to legalize the recreational use of marijuana. The law was passed in the November 2014 election, with 53.2 percent of Alaska voters approving the measure. It takes effect on Tuesday, February 24th.

Alaska joins Colorado and Washington State, becoming the third state to legalize recreational pot smoking. Colorado and Washington passed ballot measures legalizing marijuana in 2012. Voters in Washington D.C. and Oregon also passed legalization initiatives in November 2014. Oregon’s law will go into effect on July 1, 2015. The District of Columbia could see legal marijuana as early as Thursday, February 26, but because of wrangling between Congress and local officials, Washington D.C.’s status remains somewhat nebulous.

The new Alaska law permits residents to grow up to six marijuana plants and to share up to an ounce at a time with other individuals. It also allows private consumption of marijuana, which was already permitted by a 1975 State Supreme Court ruling, but the new measure erased ambiguity by overriding some laws that contradicted the Court’s ruling. Public consumption of pot is still prohibited, and anyone caught smoking marijuana in public could be subject to a 100 dollar fine.

Reacting to the law’s implementation, Alaska’s Alcoholic Beverage Control Board issued an emergency regulation Tuesday morning, to define a public place. The regulation stipulated that, for the purposes of marijuana consumption, a public place is defined as:

A place to which the public or a substantial group of persons has access and includes highways, transportation facilities, schools, places of amusement or business, parks, playgrounds, prisons, and hallways, lobbies, and other portions of apartment houses and hotels not constituting rooms or apartments designed for actual residence.

While Anchorage has permitted the operation of Cannabis Cafes, which would permit pot use inside, the small town of Wasilla scrambled to impose specific restrictions just hours before the law took effect. Wasilla is best known for its most famous resident, Sarah Palin, who was mayor of the city of approximately 8,000 residents, from 1996-2002.

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Can't have MJ competing with the meth, ya know....

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

1. Sounds like California should go for legalization next.

Then start pushing in Nevada and Idaho, sweep from the northwest down and across the country.

[DisgustipatedinCA]

2. Meth Capitol of Alaska band pot brownies.

Seems reasonable.

[ghostsinthemachine]

3. The subject is far too complicated to be voted on by the electorate

or else every aspect of it will be in court forever and ever (the lawyers always win, right?).

every word counts in an initiative and unless it simply does what CO's initiative did, which was mandate that the legislature produce a law, then it will not pass.
Who grows it and how? land rights? Aroma? transportation? labeling, packaging.

Where do you sell it? Can I sell at a ballgame? Concert? Where cvan I use it? Concert? ballgame? In a park? What about vapes? Extracts? Butane hash oil? Driving? Edibles, trash etc.

I've read the CO law and it is very very very complex, yet I can think of fifty things that are not covered in it....