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Mackey misses court appearance
Anchorage Daily News ^ | February 13th, 2010 11:39 PM | KYLE HOPKINS

Posted on 02/14/2010 2:29:46 PM PST by skeptoid

YUKON QUEST: He thought he had later date for drug charge.
Reigning Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race champion Lance Mackey missed an Anchorage court appearance for a minor marijuana possession charge Friday while racing the Yukon Quest, according to an online court records database. Mackey is a throat cancer survivor who carries a medical marijuana card and has admitted to using pot on the Iditarod trail in the past.

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TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Outdoors; Sports
KEYWORDS: alaska; iditarod; marijuana
. . . Mackey has won the Iditarod three years in a row. This year race organizers plan to give mushers a drug test, which Mackey has said he will comply with, the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reported in December.
1 posted on 02/14/2010 2:29:47 PM PST by skeptoid
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To: skeptoid

But the question is, is Mackey exposing his dogs to second hand cannabis?


2 posted on 02/14/2010 2:45:53 PM PST by smokingfrog (You can't ignore your boss and expect to keep your job... www.filipthishouse2010.com)
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I have a feeling riding high would be much more fun.

Leave this guy alone!!!!!!!!


3 posted on 02/14/2010 3:14:35 PM PST by goseminoles
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To: goseminoles
Mackey's ok; he's set the standard for 1000 mile races up here. Easy going, freedom loving kinda guy. I've run into him out and about and at races; Most people on FR couldn't help but liking the guy if they met him. Regular comedian but also highly competitive when it gets real.

In Alaska, people don't respect laws that have become ridiculous; then they become unenforceable. Kinda comes from the Indians. They could care less what the feds tell them about anything; they do as they have done for a 1000 years. The feds have lost much of their power up here, leads to more freedom for all.

Ya know what's scary? I had a 96 year old neighbor, homesteaded his place in 1942. I once ask him how Alaska has changed? He said people nowadays see themselves as Americans; do as they're told. He said before statehood, people were much more independent.

4 posted on 02/14/2010 3:33:27 PM PST by Eska
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