cannabisnews.com: Court Keeps Pot Registration Requirement Court Keeps Pot Registration Requirement Posted by FoM on January 13, 2001 at 18:28:52 PT By Chris Talbott Source: Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Charles Rollins is running out of legal options.The Alaska Supreme Court again rebuffed the North Pole resident's attempt to overturn the registration clause in the state's medical marijuana statute, sidestepping the issue altogether and answering Rollins' petition with a simple vocabulary list.After Rollins, who says he does not smoke marijuana, originally challenged the voter-approved initiative because of his concerns for users' privacy, the court ruled against him. Rollins refiled, saying that the court had stigmatized him by referring to him as a potential user. Rather than overturning their previous ruling, the court simply replaced all personal pronouns and nouns in its previous ruling and reissued it Friday. That ends Rollins' current legal fight, but that doesn't mean he's done.Rollins said he has other options. One is to use the existing case but change the emphasis. In his first case, Rollins argued that the registration requirement violated privacy rights in the Alaska Constitution. He could reargue the case as a violation under the U.S. Constitution.Or, he said, he could try his hand at initiative writing to get his own measure on the ballot to addresses his concerns without limiting access to legitimate medical marijuana use.Ballot Measure 8, an initiative that made Alaska one of the first states in the country to approve of limited legal marijuana use, was ratified by voters in 1998. To legally use marijuana with a doctor's permission, though, patients are required to register with the Department of Health and Social Services.Rollins' fear is that the register will become an easy point for harassment, a feeling he said has been proved in at least one instance he's aware of. He believes there's only one way to stop that from happening."Either a well-written medical (marijuana law) or just a general legalization," he said. Source: Fairbanks Daily News-Miner (AK)Author: Chris TalbottPublished: January 13, 2001Copyright: 2001 Fairbanks Publishing Company, Inc.Address: P.O. Box 70710 , Fairbanks, AK 99707-0710Fax: (907) 452-7917Contact: letters newsminer.comWebsite: http://www.newsminer.com/Related Article:Medical Marijuana Users Sign Registryhttp://cannabisnews.com/news/6/thread6355.shtmlCannabisNews Medical Marijuana Archiveshttp://cannabisnews.com/news/list/medical.shtml END SNIP --> Snipped Home Comment Email Register Recent Comments Help Comment #2 posted by Joseph Akpik on April 17, 2001 at 16:52:19 PT: Pot We should sent out a strong voice to the Governor to accept the petition for voters. [ Post Comment ] Comment #1 posted by drfist on January 14, 2001 at 11:28:50 PT In Hawaii you have to register with the NARCS This case could have effect on Hawaii's draconian MM law /rules. Requiring the doctor to register the user with the Dept. of public safety and they can share the info with "other" agencies. abd check on you, to see if you have 5 instead of the allowed 4 seedlings and 3 mature plants, not to exceed 3 oz. what a deal, yet doctors can write a prescription for opiates with no such registration, or speed for that matter. So this must stop, it's really designed to discourage use of the law. This is Hawaii where a VERY large percentage of people use cannabis and grow it. [ Post Comment ] Post Comment Name: Optional Password: E-Mail: Subject: Comment: [Please refrain from using profanity in your message] Link URL: Link Title: