Alaska: Governor Set to Push Anti-Marijuana Legislation Again

Juneau Empire ^ | Dec. 9, 2005

[Know your rights]

And Coors salivates at a barge full of beer barrels.

So you want a dope entitlement.

Does Coors have a "beer entitlement" ... or are you babbling again?

[Know your rights]

judges making law from the bench

What does "The right of the people to privacy is recognized and shall not be infringed" mean to you?

[Mojave]

"The right of the people to privacy is recognized and shall not be infringed" mean to you?

Just what it says. Nothing about four ounces of dope.

[Mojave]

Does Coors have a "beer entitlement"

Its production and sale of alcoholic beverages is a taxed and regulated privilege. Society has chosen not to extend the same privilege to dope, so you're petulantly whining for an entitlement.

[porkchops 4 mahound]

It means ALASKANS believe that the government's power is granted by the consent of Alaska's people, and that government should stay out of our lives and homes as much as practical.

It means Alaskans run Alaska, not ANY government.

It means we don't give a D@mn about how the rest of the nation does things. (Gaining the approval and consent of anyone, BUT ALASKANS, is NOT a priority).

It means that if OUR courts say up to 4 ozs of weed is "legal", then, until THE PEOPLE OF ALASKA want to change our STATE CONSTITUTION, it'll stay that way.

It means folks like Mo-jive, (who seems way stressed re: "the evil weed"), are free to express their irrelevant opinions.

But we don't HAVE to listen.

Thank GOD for ALASKA!

"Alaska IS, what America used to be."

[Mojave]

It means ALASKANS believe that the government's power is granted by the consent of Alaska's people,

Exercising that power through their elected representatives, not judges inventing laws from the bench.

You fear the will of the Alaskan people and despise the republican process by which their will is made manifest.

I welcome their decision, whatever it may be.

[Know your rights]

Nothing about four ounces of dope.

If having four ounces of dope in one's home is not included in privacy, the term has little meaning.

[Know your rights]

production and sale of alcoholic beverages is a taxed and regulated privilege.

Where did you get that foolish idea? Production and sale of any commodity not posing a clear and present danger to others is a natural right.

[Mojave]

If having four ounces of dope in one's home is not included in privacy

then what good are swirling emanations of penumbras?

[Mojave]

Production and sale of any commodity not posing a clear and present danger to others is a natural right.

Assume the premise, beg the question.

Merry Christmas!

[Know your rights]

emanations of penumbras

Backward; that's how the US Supreme Court found an unstated 'right to privacy' in the US Constitution ... in the Alaskan Constitution the right to privacy is explicitly stated.

[Know your rights]

Assume the premise, beg the question.

No more than did your assertion.

Merry Christmas!

And a merry Christmas to you. Back on Monday.

[porkchops 4 mahound]

Unless you are an Alaskan, what you "think", (about how ALASKA runs), means nothing.

:^p

"Merry Christmas!"

[robertpaulsen]

"State Constitution be damned?"

Damned? No, simply ignored -- you know, just like you ignore the federal constitution when you don't like what it says. Ignored, like the State of California ignores the will of the people in not enforcing Proposition 215.

But damned? Nah.

[robertpaulsen]

"The Alaska Court of Appeals ruled that Alaska residents may possess up to four ounces of marijuana ..."

The Alaska Court of Appeals is writing legislation? I guess judicial activism is OK with you if it's your kind of activism, huh?

Unbelievable.

[robertpaulsen]

"The "right" to four ounces of dope, by judicial fiat."

Judicial activism is OK with Wolfie if if it favors his cause. All other judicial activism is bad.

[houeto]

I guess judicial activism is OK with you if it's your kind of activism, huh? Unbelievable.

Unbelievable? No different than you believing that the Commerce Clause gives the fedgov the right to outlaw me growing a weed in my own backyard. THAT'S unbelievable!

I know, I know, "Congress has a finding...blah...blah...blah."

Merry Christmas all.

[robertpaulsen]

"I know, I know, "Congress has a finding...blah...blah...blah."

Key words ... Congress has a finding.

Not the court.

[Mojave]

No different than you believing that the Commerce Clause gives the fedgov the right to outlaw me growing a weed in my own backyard.

1. Congress making law is different from courts making law.

2. You can grow dandelions if you want.

[Mojave]

Key words ... Congress has a finding.

But Congress won't make the laws he wants!