July 08, 2003

War on Drugs: Alaska judge says precedent overrides popular vote

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
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