Pubdate: Thu, 18 Dec 2014 Source: Alaska Dispatch News (AK) Copyright: 2014 Alaska Dispatch Publishing Contact: http://www.adn.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/18 Note: Anchorage Daily News until July '14 Author: Don Ingraham IGNORE POT LIKE CAPITAL MOVE Looking at Alaska's present economic status and the history about the vote to move the capital, it is well within the rights of the state Legislature to ignore the vote to legalize pot. Anyone who saw the state ignore the vote to move the capital should have no trouble agreeing that legalization of pot is now an unaffordable vote that will only increase the deficits for the foreseeable future. There are way too many other priorities in Alaska needing attention. So all you pot smokers should simply carry on illegally as it apparently never stopped you in the past, and the rest of us can focus on making clearheaded decisions about what this state needs. - - Don Ingraham Chugiak - --- MAP posted-by: Jay Bergstrom