"I want marijuana this session."
— Alaska Gov. Frank Murkowski quoted on TV on May 5


The governor of Alaska declared [5 May 2005] that passing legislation
to re-criminalize marijuana should be one of the state legislature's
top three priorities before it adjourns for the year.

It's costing a little over $1,000 a day to fight Gov. Frank Murkowski
(R) and his crusade to put marijuana users in jail.

Alaska is the only state where it's legal to use and possess
marijuana for recreational purposes -- up to four ounces of marijuana
in the privacy of the home. But Gov. Murkowski is pushing hard to
impose up to five years in prison for possessing four ounces of
marijuana -- the same penalty as for committing incest with a child!

Alaskans for Marijuana Regulation and Control has been running radio
ads slamming the governor's legislation, calling thousands of Alaska
voters to get them to complain to their legislators, and, with the
help of the Alaska Civil Liberties Union, lining up experts to
testify against the legislation.

See http://www.mpp.org/