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posted on June 22, 2013 by
US AK: Pot Is Back In Alaska Politics
Anchorage Press, 20 Jun 2013 – Alaska’s marijuana reformers are back, this time offering a wholesale legalization of the drug in a state once known as the most permissive in the nation when it comes to smoking pot. Last week the group called Campaign to Regulate Marijuana cleared its first hurdle with an approval from Lieutenant Governor Mead Treadwell to circulate a petition and put the legalization of pot on the August 2014 primary election ballot. If the petitioners are successful, voters will be asked to pass a seven-page law that legalizes and regulates the production, sale and possession of marijuana on a footing somewhat similar to alcohol. "The idea of this initiative is to treat alcohol and marijuana about the same," said Bill Parker, one of the initiative’s sponsors and a former member of the Alaska State House who debated marijuana policy in the 1970s and early 1980s.
