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    Alaska Becomes 3rd State With Legal Marijuana

    Alaska Becomes 3rd State With Legal Marijuana

    By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS FEB. 23, 2015, 6:05 P.M. E.S.T.

    JUNEAU, Alaska — Smoking, growing and possessing marijuana becomes legal in America's wildest state Tuesday, thanks to a voter initiative aimed at clearing away 40 years of conflicting laws and court rulings.

    Making Alaska the third state to legalize recreational marijuana was the goal of a coalition including libertarians, rugged individualists and small-government Republicans who prize the privacy rights enshrined in the state's constitution.


    But when they voted 52-48 percent last November to legalize marijuana use by adults in private places, they left many of the details to lawmakers and regulators to sort out.


    Meanwhile, Alaska Native leaders worry that legalization will bring new temptations to communities already confronting high rates of drug and alcohol abuse, domestic violence and suicide.

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    Unless Alaska has seceded from the Union this is wrong. Marijuana is illegal by Federal law.

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    Quote Originally Posted by artclam View Post
    Unless Alaska has seceded from the Union this is wrong. Marijuana is illegal by Federal law.
    CO. and WA. already legalized recreational marijuana.

    Alaska is the 3rd State to Legalize Recreational Marijuana Use

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    Alaska is the 3rd State to Legalize Recreational Marijuana Use ...Washington and Colorado, which lifted their marijuana prohibitions in 2012, ...
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    Alaska is the 3rd State to Legalize Recreational Marijuana Use

    Nick DeLuca - Staff Writer 02/24/15 @7:17am in City News



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    It's a historic day in Alaska. On Tuesday, February 25, the 49th state to enter the union becomes the 3rd to legalize recreational marijuana use.

    Alaska follows Washington and Colorado, which lifted their marijuana prohibitions in 2012, as well as Oregon and Washington D.C. (currently it's illegal to purchase the recreational variety in the capital but possession and growth is OK) to give the proverbial green light to toking up.


    The legislation, approved via ballot measure, allows "adults 21 and older to possess up to an ounce of pot and up to six plants" according to the Associated Press. "Regulations for the sale of the drug till must be hammered out."


    So while it's kosher to have and grow marijuana within certain constraints, pretty much everything else – the purchase, sale, smoking in public, etc., of marijuana is still illegal.


    Smoking weed in public is punishable by a fine of $100.


    "Until existing criminal statutes are changed – which the Alaska Legislature is working on – any conduct not specifically made legal in the initiative remains illegal, for now," writes the Anchorage Daily News.


    In Massachusetts
    , the state is still determining which medicinal marijuana dispensary applicants will be allowed to open their doors. Medicinal marijuana was also approved by ballot initiative in the Commonwealth, though that was in 2012 – when the aforementioned states began laying the groundwork for recreational.


    The first approved medical marijuana dispensary in Massachusetts is expected to open in Salem this spring.

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    Feds Won't Interfere With States' Medical Marijuana Laws

    By Jessica Corso
    Law360, New York (December 19, 2014, 2:59 PM ET) --

    The federal government will no longer enforce its drug policy in states where medical marijuana has been legalized, according to a provision in the national budget signed by President Barack Obama.


    An amendment to the $1.1 trillion Consolidated and Further Appropriations Act,
    passed by the Senate on Dec. 13 and promptly signed by the president, prohibits the U.S. Department of Justice from accessing federal funds in order to enforce Controlled Substances Act regulations in the 33 states that have legalized some form of the drug for medical use to date.

    New York, which is still in the process of outlining the rules set to govern its medical marijuana act, was not one of the states mentioned on Congress' list.

    The DOJ is not to use its power “to prevent such states from implementing their own state laws that authorize the use, distribution, possession, or cultivation of medical marijuana,” according to a provision buried in the 700-page bill.

    The provision is within keeping of an already in-place DOJ policy initiative taking a hands-off approach in prosecuting medical marijuana use.

    In a policy memo issued to U.S. attorneys general in 2009, the DOJ said that it would be a waste of federal resources to spend time pursuing chronically ill patients and their caregivers who often use the drug to ease their pain.

    The policy, however, does not prevent federal prosecutors from pursuing individuals and organizations that hide behind the increasingly popular legalization laws to distribute marijuana in a manner that is not authorized by state law, according to the DOJ.

    “Nor does this guidance preclude investigation or prosecution, even when there is clear and unambiguous compliance with existing state law, in particular circumstances where investigation or prosecution otherwise serves important federal interests,” the 2009 memo said.

    The DOJ also declined in a 2013 memo to pursue recreational marijuana use laws in Colorado and Washington, but said it could change its mind if the states fail to comply with a set of federal initiatives keeping the drug out of minors and criminals' hands.

    Whether a lawsuit filed against Colorado on Thursday by neighboring states Oklahoma and Nebraska challenging the state's recreational use law will force the DOJ to alter its policy position remains to be seen.

    In response to the filing of that suit with the U.S. Supreme Court, Colorado Attorney General John Suthers said Nebraska and Colorado should direct their ire toward the federal government, which is increasingly reluctant to commit valuable resources to battling marijuana legalization, and not toward the citizens of Colorado.

    --Editing by Andrew Park.

    http://www.law360.com/articles/606169/feds-won-t-interfere-with-states-medical-marijuana-laws

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