Alaska House upholds best marijuana law in the U.S. Dear (My Name):
In a stunning upset, MPP's coalition in Alaska has won a major victory against efforts to re-criminalize marijuana in Alaska. On Wednesday, against all odds, the Alaska House of Representatives voted 21-19 to reject Gov. Frank Murkowski's (R) bill to wipe out Alaska's good marijuana law â?? the best state marijuana law in the nation.
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Currently, Alaska is the only state where any aspect of recreational marijuana use is legal, but Murkowski's legislation would re-criminalize possession of small amounts of marijuana in the home and send Alaska back to the Dark Ages. His outrageous bill would make the penalty for possession of small amounts of marijuana the same as for incest, burglary, or possessing child pornography â?? up to five years in prison.

Please click here to help the Marijuana Policy Project in our campaign to fight this appalling legislation.


MPP has been providing substantial financial support to Alaskans for Marijuana Regulation and Control (AMRC), and on Wednesday that work paid off. With MPP's assistance, AMRC:
[align=left]â?¢ funded radio ads slamming the bills (which you can listen to on our Web site);
â?¢ generated calls from thousands of Alaska voters to their legislators;
â?¢ retained the former deputy commissioner of corrections to lobby full time against the bill; and
â?¢ funded a poll that found that 56% of Alaskans oppose Gov. Murkowski's legislation.
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But the battle isn't over yet. AMRC is spending more than $1,000 a day in Alaska to ensure that a revised version of the bill doesn't pass in the 18 days remaining before the legislative session ends on May 9.

Would you please make a donation today so we can help keep up the pressure to keep marijuana legal in Alaska?

Wednesday's House vote was a searing setback for Murkowski, but the battle isn't over. Now the House and Senate will meet again to try to work out the differences between the different versions of the bill, so we need to keep the pressure on ... by continuing to run the radio ads and generating more calls from constituents to their state legislators.

At a cost of more than $1,000 a day, we need your help. Would you please donate $10 or more to the fight to keep marijuana legal in Alaska?

Thank you,

Rob Kampia
Executive Director
Marijuana Policy Project
Washington, D.C.
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