A real decrim proposal in Alaska It's an initiative really, and the prohibitionists are a bit worried about it. Newsday today runs an AP story on three different marijuana-related voter initiatives set for the November election. Montana is looking at a new medical marijuana program, the Oregon ballot question would expand a current medical marijuana program, but in Alaska, activists are going for the whole ball of wax.
Alaskans will vote on a measure even more far-reaching than Oregon's -- to prohibit prosecution of anyone 21 or older who consumes, grows or distributes pot for private personal use. It would allow authorities to regulate marijuana along the lines of alcohol and tobacco -- for example, taxing it and barring its use in public.
Even a leading foe of the measure, former U.S. Attorney Wev Shea, believes it might pass, thanks partly to sophisticated advertising backed by national marijuana-reform organizations.
"They've got a lot of money behind them and they're running a very professional campaign," Shea said in a telephone interview. "It's difficult for us on the other side -- we don't get paid a penny."
Poor, poor prohibitionists, how I feel their pain. Actually, there's a multi-billion dollar, taxpayer-funded anti-marijuana propaganda campaign that has been going on for years, despite its counterproductive nature.
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