Victory -- marijuana will remain legal in Alaska!

[dogday]

http://www.sianews.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2431


We did it! The Marijuana Policy Project and our allies in Alaska have successfully beaten back efforts to re-criminalize marijuana in Alaska. After months of round-the-clock lobbying and grassroots organizing, marijuana will remain safe and legal in Alaska.

We couldn't have done this without the help of our 17,000 dues-paying members. We spent $45,000 in Alaska to pay for a full-time lobbyist, two radio ads, and the generation of phone calls from constituents to their state legislators. And this doesn't count the cost of MPP staffers' time and overhead in our D.C. headquarters.

[goodboy]

1. Congratulations! Good for you...now, let's start working on the rest of

the country.

[rndmprsn]

4. amen to that!

[Toots]

2. They will be back next year with the same BS

Granted this is a win for this year but they will not give up. There is just too damn much money involved. If you grow your own Pot they don't get their kickbacks. Watch for a revival of this issue next year. Also it is still against Federal law and every single State Trooper is an official Federal Deputy Marshal. They still prosecute offenders in Alaska every single day..

[Scout1071]

3. Congrats. Now let's work on the lower 48.

It's criminal that marijuana is criminal.

[robertpaulsen]

5. Sounds like its time for an Alaska trip!

:hippie::smoke:

[Selteri]

6. Let's turn Alaska into a New Amsterdam, create the kind of income

that they never want to see go away.

[Swamp Rat]

7. Yaay!!!