A judge in Alaska has ruled that a 1975 Alaska Supreme Court decision established that a person had an Alaskan Constitutional right to possess marijuana under a certain amount in their own homes and that even though the people of Alaska had voted to make it illegal to possess any amount of marijuana, such vote had no authority to overide such Constitutional right. As such, he threw out a criminal conviction given by a jury. [full story]
attribution: Hit & Run
Posted by Tiger at July 8, 2003 08:32 PM