Thursday, August 19, 2004
Back to school. Some training starts this week, with school next week.
I should have some interesting tales from the training (training to teach a freshman writing class - you know: the class that the tenured faculty refuse to teach, so they make the underpaid grad students and adjunct faculty do it instead).
In the meantime: Check out this article about the legalization of pot (marijuana) in Alaska:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,129495,00.html
Whoever wrote that article has no idea about the history of pot in Alaska. This article makes this sound like this idea of legalizing marijauna in Alaska is something new. It isn't.
In fact, UNTIL 1992 POT WAS LEGAL in Alaska. A person could have 4 oz. for their own personal use. In 1992, voters in Alaska overwhelmingly approved a measure making marijuana illegal. In 2003 a superior court judge in Alaska overturned the voter approved measure, but his overturning of the law won't go into effect until the Alaska Supreme Court hears the case (I think. The news reports on this were somewhat vauge).
I'm fairly sure if this makes it on the ballot, the voters will still support keeping pot illegal in Alaska.
But when have the courts ever cared about what the voters think?
I should have some interesting tales from the training (training to teach a freshman writing class - you know: the class that the tenured faculty refuse to teach, so they make the underpaid grad students and adjunct faculty do it instead).
In the meantime: Check out this article about the legalization of pot (marijuana) in Alaska:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,129495,00.html
Whoever wrote that article has no idea about the history of pot in Alaska. This article makes this sound like this idea of legalizing marijauna in Alaska is something new. It isn't.
In fact, UNTIL 1992 POT WAS LEGAL in Alaska. A person could have 4 oz. for their own personal use. In 1992, voters in Alaska overwhelmingly approved a measure making marijuana illegal. In 2003 a superior court judge in Alaska overturned the voter approved measure, but his overturning of the law won't go into effect until the Alaska Supreme Court hears the case (I think. The news reports on this were somewhat vauge).
I'm fairly sure if this makes it on the ballot, the voters will still support keeping pot illegal in Alaska.
But when have the courts ever cared about what the voters think?
