cannabisnews.com: Marijuana Initiative Going To Ballot Marijuana Initiative Going To Ballot Posted by CN Staff on January 07, 2004 at 08:48:42 PT By Sheila Toomey, Anchorage Daily News Source: Anchorage Daily News Legalization -- Small amounts would be OK for personal use; two other proposals expected.A proposal to legalize marijuana use in private by people older than 21 has become the first initiative approved for the 2004 general election ballot. Lt. Gov. Loren Leman, a public opponent of legalization, announced Tuesday that he has certified the 28,783 petition signatures required to place the initiative before voters. With less than a week left before the 2004 initiative deadline, only two of six petitions still outstanding are expected to show up on time with the requisite number of signatures, said Tom Godkin, a supervisor in the Division of Elections. To make it onto the Nov. 2 ballot, signature booklets must be at the Division of Elections before the gavel comes down on the opening of the new legislative session, which is 10 a.m. next Monday.Sponsors of an initiative to outlaw bear baiting and one mandating an election to fill U.S. Senate vacancies have advised the division they will be bringing in their signature booklets before then, Godkin said.Nearly 30 years after the state Supreme Court first concluded that Alaskans have a right to possess small amounts of marijuana in their homes for personal use, the recreational drug that gained wide acceptance in the 1960s is still provoking challenges in court and on the ballot. Snipped: Complete Article: http://www.freedomtoexhale.com/ballot.htmSource: Anchorage Daily News (AK)Author: Sheila Toomey, Anchorage Daily NewsPublished: January 7, 2004Copyright: 2004 The Anchorage Daily News Contact: letters adn.com Website: http://www.adn.com/ Related Articles & Web Site:Free Hemp in Alaskahttp://www.freehempinak.org/Alaskans To Vote on Marijuana Decriminalization http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread18101.shtmlAlaskans to Vote on Pot Legalization in '04 http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread18067.shtmlPot Prop May Go On '04 Ballot http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread17408.shtml Home Comment Email Register Recent Comments Help Comment #26 posted by FoM on January 13, 2004 at 13:31:11 PT Related Article from Focus on the Family Alaska May Legalize PotSteve Jordahl, CorrespondentJanuary 13, 2004Initiative to be voted on this fall is the most liberal of its kind in the nation.Alaska voters will weigh in this fall on whether to legalize the possession and use of marijuana, thanks to a successful petition drive to get the measure on the November ballot. The initiative is the most liberal legislation of its kind, putting no limit on how much marijuana someone can legally possess. Alaska already allows marijuana to be used for medical purposes, a measure voters approved in 1998. Rafael Lemaitre of the Office of National Drug Control Policy said even if voters approve the initiative, though, "the federal government is going to continue to enforce federal law.""Federal law remains that marijuana is one of the substances on the Controlled Substances List," he explained. "(That) means it's going to remain illegal."State Rep. John Coghill opposes the initiative and is already looking for ways to scuttle it. "This is going to be a presidential election year so we will have a huge voter turnout," he said. "That will do well for putting the initiative in a negative light. We will talk to our attorney general to see how that might conform to federal law. There's been some move already to do that."Copyright: 2004 Focus on the Familyhttp://www.family.org/cforum/fnif/news/a0029716.cfm [ Post Comment ] Comment #25 posted by FoM on January 13, 2004 at 13:18:28 PT News Brief from Capital City Weekly Marijuana Legalization Initiative Certified for 2004 General Election January 13, 2003Lieutenant Governor Loren Leman today notified sponsors of the initiative petition 01MRNA, "An Act to Decriminalize and Regulate Cannabis (Hemp Including Marijuana)" that their initiative has been certified for placement on the November 2, 2004 General Election ballot. The Lieutenant Governor originally denied certification of the petition in January 2003 because of a lack of qualified signatures. One hundred ninety-four signature booklets could not be verified by the Division of Elections because of reporting deficiencies. Gathering and receipt of the signatures took place under former Lieutenant Governor, Fran Ulmer, Leman’s predecessor. On September 23, 2003, Anchorage Superior Court Judge John Suddock ordered that 168 of the booklets be counted anyway, despite the reporting deficiencies. Sponsors were notified on November 13 that under the Court order their petition had the required 28,783 signatures to qualify for the ballot. For additional information, please contact Robert Pearson in the Juneau office of Lieutenant Governor Loren Leman at (907) 465-3520. http://newspapers.mywebpal.com/news_tool_v2.cfm?show=localnews&pnpID=475&NewsID=518589&CategoryID=9945&on=0 [ Post Comment ] Comment #24 posted by FoM on January 08, 2004 at 15:31:58 PT Press Release from MPP MPP's Strategic Plan for 2004 Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2004 17:39:51 -0500 (EST) Dear Friend:As you will see in the 2004 strategic plan below, this year will be the most ambitious, bold, and expensive year ever for marijuana policy reform in the United States.Bigger than in 1977, when President Jimmy Carter pledged to decriminalize marijuana. And bigger than in 1996, when California became the first state to make it legal for patients to use and grow medical marijuana.Please expect to receive approximately two e-mail alerts per week until Election Day in November. Each alert will keep you apprised of different aspects of the Marijuana Policy Project's work across the United States. In addition, each alert will contain a standard footer that will update you on the overall progress of our fundraising program, starting with this alert.======================================================================REGULATING MARIJUANA SIMILARLY TO ALCOHOL1. ALASKA: The Alaska state government just announced that a ballot initiative to remove all penalties for adult marijuana use will appear on the November 2004 general election ballot. Please see: http://Alaska2004.org We have already hired three campaign staffers and opened an office in Anchorage to spearhead this high-profile campaign.2. NEVADA: For three weeks in November 2003, we ran TV ads see: http://StopTeenUse.com - in the Reno media market which explained that 67% of Nevada teenagers have used marijuana under the current prohibitionist system, as compared to only 28% of their counterparts in Holland. According to our polling, this ad succeeded in boosting support for marijuana regulation. We will continue to run similar ads in Nevada until -- at some point in the future -- there is sufficient public support to pass a marijuana regulation initiative (similar to the one that failed in November 2002) in Nevada.3. "WAR ON DRUG CZAR" CAMPAIGN: Thanks to MPP's collaboration with Congressman Ron Paul (R-TX), the White House drug czar's office is under investigation for illegally using taxpayer money to urge prosecutors across the country to lobby for harsher marijuana penalties. MPP is also about to sue the Nevada Secretary of State to force him to require Drug Czar John Walters to file campaign finance reports for the taxpayer money he spent to oppose our 2002 ballot initiative. And, of course, we are continuing to lobby Congress to eliminate all funding for the drug czar's deceptive $145,000,000 advertising campaign.4. ORGANIZING CELEBRITIES: MPP has just hired a full-time employee in Hollywood for the sole purpose of organizing celebrities to speak out in favor of ending marijuana prohibition. MPP will elaborate on this in a future e-mail alert.5. CONGRESSIONAL LEGISLATION: We will soon announce the introduction of a bipartisan bill in the U.S. House of Representatives that would end the federal government's war on marijuana entirely. Once this bill is introduced, we will ask you and other allies to lobby your three members of Congress to sponsor this legislation. After a few years of lobbying, committee hearings and votes, and a lively national debate, we intend for Congress to pass this legislation so that states will be allowed to implement their own marijuana laws without federal interference.======================================================================REMOVING CRIMINAL PENALTIES FOR MEDICAL MARIJUANA1. TWO STATE BALLOT INITIATIVES: Every state and national public opinion poll ever conducted shows that a clear majority of voters support the removal of criminal penalties for the medical use of marijuana. To increase the pressure on Congress to change federal law, MPP will be placing medical marijuana initiatives on the ballots of two states in November 2004.2. CONNECTICUT, ILLINOIS, NEW YORK, RHODE ISLAND, AND VERMONT: We are retaining professional lobbyists in the capitals of these five states for the purpose of passing our medical marijuana legislation through each state legislature, similar to how Hawaii and Maryland passed medical marijuana bills in 2000 and 2003, respectively. The five state legislatures will debate and vote on our bills between now and this summer.3. NATIONAL COALITION OF PHYSICIANS: By sending a series of mailings to physicians nationwide, we are building a coalition of 15,000 supportive physicians who will lobby their state legislators and members of Congress, testify at committee hearings, and do media interviews in support of MPP's state and federal medical marijuana bills.4. CONGRESSIONAL LEGISLATION: We are working with U.S. Sen. Richard Durbin (D-IL) to gather co-sponsors for the first-ever medical marijuana bill in the Senate, which will be introduced this month. In the meantime, we are organizing grassroots supporters in the districts of 70 swing House members who -- when added to the 156 House members who are already supportive -- will take us past the 218 votes we need to pass medical marijuana legislation on the House floor. Our next House floor vote is expected in June or July.5. TARGETING TWO OR THREE U.S. HOUSE MEMBERS FOR DEFEAT: The outcome of the House floor vote this coming summer will determine the two or three House members we will be targeting for defeat in November 2004. We intend to demonstrate to members of Congress that their political futures depend, in part, on voting for MPP's medical marijuana legislation.If you like what you see, please consider visiting http://www.mpp.org/donate0901 to donate early to our work. [ Post Comment ] Comment #23 posted by john wayne on January 08, 2004 at 14:22:49 PT Nuevo Mexican How wierd, we don't have any kind of TV, but I just installed a DVD player on the Linux box and my housemate just rented "Meet John Doe", a riveting 1941 Hollywood film which I watched 3 times. Barbary Stanwyck is very young and very hot. Gary Cooper is at his quizzical small town best.The film is an exploration of the interplay between big-time politics and the "media" which in those days was comprised by newspapers, radio and, of course, film.After several viewings I realized that the film is really another variation on that perennial movie-message favorite, "small town innocence will eventually persevere over big-city sneakiness and lies." A tasty holiday fantasy. (The movie climaxes on cristmas eve, for those looking for an alternative to "It's a wonderful life".) [ Post Comment ] Comment #22 posted by mayan on January 08, 2004 at 14:04:57 PT kap'n... Thanks for the links. I couldn't agree more with you. Thanks for the Bush/Hitler one also. Hitler would be proud of Bush. [ Post Comment ] Comment #21 posted by kaptinemo on January 08, 2004 at 05:41:36 PT: Speaking of Hitler: Many here may know of MoveOn.org's recent flap in having to withdraw a commercial likening Der Shrubbenfeuhrer to die reale Sache (the real Thing). They caught some Hell for that and dropped it. I think this (sardonic, tongue-in-cheek) article provides something in the way of the thinking of those who wanted it dropped:That Pesky Bush-Hitler Thing: truthout Commentary By Marc Ash http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/010704A.shtml [ Post Comment ] Comment #20 posted by kaptinemo on January 08, 2004 at 05:26:03 PT: Mayan, I did read it, but thanks again It only helps bolster my premise: this is nothing 'new', just a variation on an old theme.If you've ever gone to Observer's DrugSenseBot page, you'll see a fascinating article: Themes in Chemical Prohibition By William L. White from: Drugs in Perspective, National Institute on Drug Abuse, 1979 http://drugpolicycentral.com/bot/pg/propaganda/If you read it, you'll find just what I and others here been saying for years: antis are like 'broken records' - maybe I should say 'scratched CD's' - when it comes to their propaganda. Then go here: http://drugpolicycentral.com/bot/pg/news/dictionary1.htmIt will give you a 'dictionary' of propagnada themes in which this one is part & parcel of Theme 2: *Description: drug war propaganda theme: madness, violence, illness caused by drugs*Their now-ancient core lies are only embellished with modern so-called (Ahem!) 'research' - which on in-depth analysis proves to be identifiable as one of the basic themes that they had started with originally. They just keep chasing their tails, and by using more contemporary terminology, seek to convince the largely ignorant public and legislators that what they are saying is somehow 'new'...when in fact it is still the same old stale BS being warmed up and perfumed to hide the stink of something long-rotten and in need of a decent burial.BTW, it's no accident that the Theme Dictionary begins with an image of a ranting Hitler, fists raised in wild gesture, face contorted with rage as he spews his venom. You have to ask: how many antis would like to emulate just such behavior publicly in their diatribes against cannabis and other illicit drugs, but know that to do so would immediately mark them as his ideological handmaidens? [ Post Comment ] Comment #19 posted by FoM on January 07, 2004 at 18:25:53 PT mayan I quick checked out the article and I wanted to say something. Many people who have problems and need help have probably used Cannabis but more then likely other drugs and alcohol are to blame. Because someone uses Cannabis doesn't mean they will wind up with mental health problems. Locking up people because some folks are having mental health issues is not a good mental health practice and they hopefully know it. I hope! [ Post Comment ] Comment #18 posted by mayan on January 07, 2004 at 18:15:31 PT kap'n... I posted this on an earlier thread but don't know if you saw it. One of Britain's foremost authorities on psychosis is turning up "new evidence" that "people who used cannabis in their teens were up to seven times more likely to develop psychosis, delusional episodes or manic depression." All of this just three weeks before Britain is scheduled to downgrade cannabis to Class C. I don't know if that is the "new information" that you are wondering about but it could be.Blunkett warned of dangers of cannabis: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,8122-954594,00.htmlFrom the article...David Blunkett, the Home Secretary, announced in 2002 that he intended to re-classify the drug after a lengthy examination of drugs policy by the Commons Select Committee on Home Affairs. However, Professor Murray said that new evidence had since come to light proving that people who used cannabis in their teens were up to seven times more likely to develop psychosis, delusional episodes or manic depression. “Unfortunately, there were no experts in psychosis on the committees that advised the Government,” he said. “That’s not a criticism; at the time, no one thought there should have been. Since then, there have been at least four studies that show the use of cannabis, particularly in young people, can significantly increase the likelihood of the onset of psychosis. The way out is the way in...President Bush Served Friday With Personal 9/11 RICO Complaint: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5479.htmNYC 9/11 Truth Takes Back Ground Zero: http://www.septembereleventh.org/newsarchive/2004-01-04-groundzero.php [ Post Comment ] Comment #17 posted by Virgil on January 07, 2004 at 17:25:07 PT RC addresses the Alaska iniative After a long break, RC has a new commentary this Wednesday. It is on the Alaskan iniative- http://www.marijuananews.com/news.php3?sid=725 [ Post Comment ] Comment #16 posted by jackson1040 on January 07, 2004 at 16:40:49 PT: LEGALIZE IT If it does pass than it will be great in any way possible excep for those people that protest something that doesent even come close to affecting them and there isnt a single thought in my mind to keep it illegal. [ Post Comment ] Comment #15 posted by Nuevo Mexican on January 07, 2004 at 15:55:07 PT 'Meet John Doe' was on Turner Classics! And the 'John Doe Clubs' reminded me of Dennis Kucinich!It looks like it is obvious to others as well!Has anyone seen this great movie?Thanks Global Warming, that made my day!I highly recommend it, and it shows how back in 1941, the stage was already set for bush to come to power, and how a real 'average' American couldn't make the grade of corrupt politician, thus, forgetaboutit! Only weasels enter politics, and only weasels are welcome. Whats left: the most greedy, selfish, clueless people end up running for office, as they are 'puppets'! Period!And the movie shown right after that, The Front Page, historys 'best' comedy according to the announcer, was an even more revealing look at the state of the media, and was filmed in 1931! Time seems to crawl!Anyway, I'm glad to see them call it a 'John Doe Club' and if you wondered why, now you know! (kaptinemo: you know about this movie don't you?)Dennis Kucinich is the John Doe of 2004!It looks like a fast slide into depravity from then til now, a real wake up call as to how long we've known that America had been corrupted and taken over by the Robber Barons. [ Post Comment ] Comment #14 posted by global_warming on January 07, 2004 at 14:11:57 PT Happy New Year 16:39 1/7/2004John Doe Club in NJ Supports Kucinich"We are treated like flies when they pull our wings off and say, you have your freedom. Go forth and pay taxes and we will protect you. Look, you fucking bastards. You pulled my wings off. Who is protecting me from you? You guys are nuts and are worthy of a treason hanging." -Virgil (Comment #11 posted by Virgil on January 07, 2004 at 12:25:53 PT SGD- The cannabis perspective will set in on you )My hat off to you Virgil, the "passionate" one.We should be thankful, that Nature and God have allowed for a failsafe in this rotten prison, for once life and breath cease, these bloody bastards cannot take another nickel out of our pockets..HA..Haha, the joke is on those rotten and foul players in this game of Life.."Seeing as the antis have exhausted all their lies long ago, this has to be nothing more than slightly warmed over, shelf-dried, freezer-burned BS. " -kaptinemo (Comment #9 posted by kaptinemo on January 07, 2004 at 11:29:32 PT: There's something else that needs scrutiny )I love your wordings, you are a brilliant writer, though I sometime get you confused with Max Flowers.We can all be assured that the "antis" represent a far more sinister liniage, one that goes back into the hidden mists of time.With all the new legislations in the US, we can be assured that this vehicle is being closely monitored, perhaps there may be some observers that might receive assurance and inspiration, that when he wakes, there will be like minds that share similar principles of freedom.The many voices that are in the wilderness will find many more of similar kind.The gathering of the Warlords and the Rich and powerful, will never guaranty full success, for within the ranks remain people, and news can travel many ways, through secret handshakes, a wink of an eye or a blink.As we are forced "underground" we take with us our passions our hopes and our dreams.The freedoms that mankind has fought for throughout time will never be forgotten, and this struggle will see no end.-Democratic Presidential Candidate Dennis Kucinich's campaign placed his name on the ballot for the Illinois primary today and has now filed for participation in the primaries and caucuses in 35 states and territories, including the District of Columbia caucuses, for which the Kucinich campaign also filed today. The campaign has not missed a single filing deadline and expects to be on every ballot.-Peace and Comfort for this New Year 04gw [ Post Comment ] Comment #13 posted by SystemGoneDown on January 07, 2004 at 13:23:50 PT Virgil... O'reilly is in favor of decriminalizing pot.That says it all my man...People who are familiar with "Oh Really" know that he is as CONSERVATIVE as can be. He's for censoring all MTV music to "our kids" and in is the biggest liberal basher around..............and he says he'd decriminalize it. It took me a while to deeply think about and process this signal. When O'reilly says he'd decriminalize, and you KNOW most liberals favor pot emancipation. So I just hope this is a good signal of what to look forward to in the election, ballot . [ Post Comment ] Comment #12 posted by Sam Adams on January 07, 2004 at 12:49:53 PT Too far Let's hope the Supreme Court upholds the Appeal Court decision, a legalization initiative will probably fail by a wide margin. [ Post Comment ] Comment #11 posted by Virgil on January 07, 2004 at 12:25:53 PT SGD- The cannabis perspective will set in on you The onerous cannabis laws and a complicit media are two sides of the CP coin. It will set in on you as you apply a cannabis perspective to current conditions.That is why I say there is a "Quiet. Quiet. Quiet. Boo!!!" strategy to prohibition. You do not here about GW extracts or the fall of prohibition in Canada, or the celebratory freedom of cannabis in Spain in the media. Walters says he has 10,000 studies that prove laughing grass is no better than dirt for helping anything. Someone should tell him you do not prove negatives and to shut his lying, treasonous alcohol hole.They have analyzed it to death to find things to demonize and cannot come up with much. It gives you a buzz. It must be criminalized and we can win this war. In 5 years the UN will see that there is no laughing grass left on the planet as well as all other illegal drugs. We will poison the rainforest and criminalize the people that survive and take their lands. We will not live one stoner unturned or unchained. We must win this war or people will want buzzbud.The guys are absolutely nuts and liars and you do not hear that in the media either. They control the media and have bribed the 5 companies that now control almost everything by building them their special table with no guest chairs. Ignore all truth. Ignore all reason. Ignore the Constitution. Turn everything upside down. Fail and demand more failure and dig the hole faster. Up is down. Wrong is right. Night is day. Failure is success. Waste is prudent spending. Imprisonment is freedom. A free press is not oxymoronic. If people wanted to change the laws they can. We believe in states rights. We have evolved to our most perfect union and nothing is worth changing. We are treated like flies when they pull our wings off and say, you have your freedom. Go forth and pay taxes and we will protect you. Look, you fucking bastards. You pulled my wings off. Who is protecting me from you? You guys are nuts and are worthy of a treason hanging. Why don't you hear perspective like that on ABC World News Tonight? They are in the business of selling advertising. Not in the business of selling news. [ Post Comment ] Comment #10 posted by SystemGoneDown on January 07, 2004 at 11:30:59 PT Virgil How come is reporting this... and not Fox News, CNN, NBC, ABC, CBS not telling any of this. From reading this, I was kind of surprised that "Anchorage Daily News" was the one being the source for this story. After reading it, it felt like big news. It seemed like big news. But it just astonished me that such a little source reported this. [ Post Comment ] Comment #9 posted by kaptinemo on January 07, 2004 at 11:29:32 PT: There's something else that needs scrutiny Since we are quoting snippets of the article, I'll include one here:*The Murkowski administration hopes to convince the current Supreme Court that marijuana now poses more than a minimal danger. "There is new information about marijuana that should be considered," said Chief Assistant Attorney General Dean Guaneli on Tuesday.*Got that? "New information", the man says. Pray tell, WHAT 'new information'? He doesn't say, at least, his supposed new information isn't mentioned. And I doubt it was because of lack of space for the column.Seeing as the antis have exhausted all their lies long ago, this has to be nothing more than slightly warmed over, shelf-dried, freezer-burned BS. I can't wait to see what inanities are trotted out to justify such a melodramatic utterance. [ Post Comment ] Comment #8 posted by Virgil on January 07, 2004 at 10:42:02 PT It is very big news,SGD It means the people will vote for legalization. It has a very good chance of passing and would be the side I would bet on. US prohibition relies on a non-penatrable defensive line. We have breach of a kind on national scales. The federal power grab that ignored the 10th amendment and held the federal purse over the states could see a breach here. If the iniative passes there is a breach of the defense of total prohibition. If this would lead to a 10th amendment challenge that called up the absurdity of federal power over all things because of a commerce clause and sensibility prevails, it would be the beginning of the end.It is a very big deal. It might well be the story of the year in 2004. It will mean for almost certain that California will be embarassed not to have iniative in 2006 and by then, the outcry would be so great that every state with iniatives will have well-chosen words for freedom on an iniative.Cannabis Prohibition is an obvious wrong. On November 2nd, the news that the defense has been breached will lead to a grabbing of the pitchforks and the wrong and the bullshit will be over. [ Post Comment ] Comment #7 posted by goneposthole on January 07, 2004 at 10:13:42 PT natural man's lament steal everythingthe fishthe starsthe watersthe treesthe animalsthe landthe oilthe goldeverythingnothing leftnot even your freedom [ Post Comment ] Comment #6 posted by SystemGoneDown on January 07, 2004 at 10:10:00 PT Marijuana ballot Is this big news? [ Post Comment ] Comment #5 posted by FoM on January 07, 2004 at 10:03:04 PT The GCW Here's the last part of the snipped article.The initiative approved for the ballot Monday would eliminate civil and criminal penalties for people 21 years or older who "grow, use, sell or give away marijuana or other hemp products." Under the initiative, marijuana "could be regulated like alcohol or tobacco." The initiative permits laws limiting marijuana use in public or to protect public safety. It leaves in place bans against use by minors. [ Post Comment ] Comment #4 posted by Virgil on January 07, 2004 at 10:00:31 PT We need to free the weed. Now there is an idea for a t-shirt- We need to free the weed.I have blanks about the current situation and the new iniative. At least we have one of the states with iniatives having a ballot issue approved. It is nice to know it is a done deal and the voters will have a debate and have their say.I wondered about the current situation that says a person can possess 4 ounces in their home and they are letting them grow 20 plants. Does in the home mean exactly that or can you have a greenhouse or can you grow outside? I especially wonder if it applies to rental situations and in particular to a bread and breakfast situation where the owner might have 20 plants for the house specialty of ganja gumbo. The present law is a law of privacy and not a law of regulation. I just wonder what are the implications of the small window the Supreme Court granted.For example, could a person that had a house with a rental house next to it have 20 plants and rent the house to a teacher on summer vacation and move some plants over so that they might be harvested within a few months and of course a mature plant upon arrival.I would ask on the Juneau Empire messageboard, but I have never been approved.The iniative that passed in 1990 won with 54% of the vote. There I wonder how many even voted in the mid-term elections. This year will be a presidential election with Alaska probably being a Bush state. They must not read the Internet, but I take it they know the need to free the weed. I would think that the iniative was worded wisely after the loss last time. I have to believe it will pass. [ Post Comment ] Comment #3 posted by cloud7 on January 07, 2004 at 09:12:52 PT GCW If Im not mistaken, this initiative requires the state to set up a regulated system for its sale and distribution. [ Post Comment ] Comment #2 posted by The GCW on January 07, 2004 at 09:00:39 PT As someone already brought up... I thought the court decision about 2 month's ago already made it legal in Alaska to have up to 4 ounces.Can someone explain the difference between the court's decision and this ballot question?Use smoke signals. [ Post Comment ] Comment #1 posted by druid on January 07, 2004 at 08:57:52 PT NORML Webcast The National NORMLcast every Wednesday night: http://www.norml.org/index.cfm?Group_ID=5877Dear Fellow Lovers of Freedom and a Common Sense Approach to the "War on Some Drugs",NORML trusts the New Year finds you and yours well and ready to redouble your marijuana law reform efforts during this important election year.NORML has some exciting news as we begin 2004. The National NORMLcast is going back online!Each Wednesday Night starting January 7th as part of the "Glenn Klein Online: Wired for Success Internet Radio and TV Webcast", you'll be able to hear Allen St. Pierre, the Executive Director of NORML Foundation, and speak with Glenn about the ongoing efforts in America and around the world to end the prohibiton against cannabis.Glenn Klein Online is an Interactive Internet Magazine promoting "Fun, Freedom, and Financial Security" live from 9-11 PM (Eastern).The National NORMLcast "page" will be online at the top of the second hour at 10 PM (Eastern).To listen and view the show you'll new Real One Player which can be downloaded at www.real.comYou may log on to hear the show live at: http://www.norml.org/index.cfm?Group_ID=5877Drop out and tune into this show which has great topics about cannabis, lively discussion, activist profiles, humor, cannabis trivia and NORML prize giveaways.Thanks for all your support for NORML and reforming marijuana laws!-NORML########### [ Post Comment ] Post Comment