is it legal to grow marijuana in alaska?
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Yes. You can have up to 5 plants OR 1 oz. You can have that ounce on your person, however you must be 19 years old. You can not store marijuana in plastic bags, especially of the zip-lock type as this is consider intent to sell. You can not sell it AT ALL. I lived there 16 years and it was voted to restore legal marijuana in 2003.
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Not legally... but Hemp can be sold and shipped within the United States. And some states have decriminalization laws, so you may be able to grow a TINY plant for your own use. Check the Law books, though. I know New York has the Rockerfeller Drug Laws, so even a joint can get you jail time. A third offense gets you 25 to life. In NY, Joel Steinberg beat his child TO DEATH and received less than 20 years. In NY, Robert Chambers raped and strangled a girl TO DEATH, claimed she asked for it, got less than 20 years.\nSeems kind of backwards... but NO do not ship pot around the country. The mail is Federal. Federal prisons are amongst the most horrible.
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in Alaska if they had oil
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If you're really talking about Hemp (NOT POT).\n\nNot yet, But.......\n\nState legislation, negotiations with the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), federal lawsuits, Congressional legislation — action on industrial hemp is happening on all fronts. There's never been a more exciting time to be involved in the movement to help industrial hemp farming make a comeback as an engine of the U.S. economy.\n\nNorth Dakota Agriculture Commissioner Roger Johnson is prepared to be the first state official to issue regulations implementing a law that allows commercial industrial hemp farming. Johnson organized a meeting for himself and agriculture commissioners from West Virginia, Massachusetts and Wisconsin, last month with Joseph Rannazzisi, a top DEA official, and other agency representatives to discuss his plans. \n\nDEA officials told Johnson that growers, processors and importers of hemp seed would have to be separately licensed, and that the DEA would have to establish quotas for industrial hemp production and processing. \n\nIn the past, the DEA has refused to acknowledge the difference between industrial hemp and marijuana. The sole researcher who obtained a DEA permit to research industrial hemp (in Hawaii) was required to secure his crop with cyclone fencing and security guards as if it were marijuana. No one has ever obtained a DEA permit to grow industrial hemp commercially. \n\nRoger Johnson has gone further than any other state official in his work to make hemp farming a reality for North Dakota. He introduced and passed a pro-hemp resolution at NASDA, the association of state agriculture departments, and now is leading the effort to make North Dakota the first state to plant a commercial hemp crop. If Johnson is successful, he will have blazed a trail for all US farmers back to hemp farming.
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No one buys that stuff anymore...not since marijuana is now tested through hair follicle & fatty tissue samples.  Goldenseal Root is an herb of the past ..LOL
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Of course. It already is in many places.\n\nWon't be long before it's legal everywhere here in Canada.
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it is illegal because it has to many uses and is far cheaper than what is currently available and so the big company's never want it to become legal but here is the real info.\nWhy is Marijuana Illegal\n\nMany people assume that marijuana was made illegal through some kind of process involving scientific, medical, and government hearings; that it was to protect the citizens from what was determined to be a dangerous drug.\n\nThe actual story shows a much different picture. Those who voted on the legal fate of this plant never had the facts, but were dependent on information supplied by those who had a specific agenda to deceive lawmakers. You'll see below that the very first federal vote to prohibit marijuana was based entirely on a documented lie on the floor of the Senate.\n\nYou'll also see that the history of marijuana's criminalization is filled with:\n\n    * Racism\n    * Fear\n    * Protection of Corporate Profits\n    * Yellow Journalism\n    * Ignorant, Incompetent, and/or Corrupt Legislators\n    * Personal Career Advancement and Greed\n\nThese are the actual reasons marijuana is illegal.\n\nA picture named leaf.gif Background\n\nFor most of human history, marijuana has been completely legal. It's not a recently discovered plant, nor is it a long-standing law. Marijuana has been illegal for less than 1% of the time that it's been in use. Its known uses go back further than 7,000 B.C. and it was legal as recently as when Ronald Reagan was a boy.\n\nThe marijuana (hemp) plant, of course, has an incredible number of uses. The earliest known woven fabric was apparently of hemp, and over the centuries the plant was used for food, incense, cloth, rope, and much more. This adds to some of the confusion over its introduction in the United States, as the plant was well known from the early 1600's, but did not reach public awareness as a recreational drug until the early 1900's.\n\nAmerica's first marijuana law was enacted at Jamestown Colony, Virginia in 1619. It was a law "ordering" all farmers to grow Indian hempseed. There were several other "must grow" laws over the next 200 years (you could be jailed for not growing hemp during times of shortage in Virginia between 1763 and 1767), and during most of that time, hemp was legal tender (you could even pay your taxes with hemp -- try that today!) Hemp was such a critical crop for a number of purposes (including essential war requirements - rope, etc.) that the government went out of its way to encourage growth.\n\nThe United States Census of 1850 counted 8,327 hemp "plantations" (minimum 2,000-acre farm) growing cannabis hemp for cloth, canvas and even the cordage used for baling cotton.\n\nThe Mexican Connection\n\nIn the early 1900s, the western states developed significant tensions regarding the influx of Mexican-Americans. The revolution in Mexico in 1910 spilled over the border, with General Pershing's army clashing with bandit Pancho Villa. Later in that decade, bad feelings developed between the small farmer and the large farms that used cheaper Mexican labor. Then, the depression came and increased tensions, as jobs and welfare resources became scarce.\n\nOne of the "differences" seized upon during this time was the fact that many Mexicans smoked marijuana and had brought the plant with them.\n\nHowever, the first state law outlawing marijuana did so not because of Mexicans using the drug. Oddly enough, it was because of Mormons using it. Mormons who traveled to Mexico in 1910 came back to Salt Lake City with marijuana. The church was not pleased and ruled against use of the drug. Since the state of Utah automatically enshrined church doctrine into law, the first state marijuana prohibition was established in 1915. (Today, Senator Orrin Hatch serves as the prohibition arm of this heavily church-influenced state.)\n\nOther states quickly followed suit with marijuana prohibition laws, inclu
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i believe that it is a crime everywhere (federal law, and upheld by the supreme court) to have anything dealing with a marijuana plant in your possession, and also paraphanalia.  interestingly enough, in most places, it isnt illegal to actually smoke it, except if you are driving.
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The state of well being I guess.\nI was born and raised in Alaska and it is a place of incredible diversity. I work on the North Slope where the temperatures range from 50 below zero in the winter (it's minus 18 right now) to 80 above in the summer. \nIn Southeast Alaska near Juneau (capitol) there are rain forests. \nI live in Southwest Alaska (Soldotna) near the famous Kenai River where it's common to catch 80 lb. King Salmon every summer. South of my town is a place called Homer where charter boats often catch Halibut in excess of 300 lbs.\nWe have moose the size of Clydesdales in our yard munching on the bushes in the winters and the flowers in the summer. One of the hazards of driving at night where I live is the moose that cross the hiways. You think hitting a deer is bad???\nThe Northern Lights will absolutely stun you and the beauty of Mt. McKinley (second tallest mountain in the world) and the Alaska Range will steal your breath.\nThe Sun shines 24 hours a day in the summer where I work and farms in the Matanuska Valley grow 80 lb cabbages. \nI know some of this might sound unbelievable but google the names of the places I've mentioned. \nAlaska, is an amazing and enchanting land!
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There is a plan to tap the oil reserves in Alaska.  But I would ask you this... Do we really need more oil?  Why not find alternative energy sources?  What happens when all the oil runs out? (And it will).  Why do we have to ruin the pristine environment in Alaska with oil drilling and creating a pipeline that will ruin the habitat of many animals?\n\nBush is unfortunately a slave to big business and is not interested in "green" energy and moving the country away from oil, which is sad because we are ruining the earth's environment.  Whatever the Bush Administration says there is global warming and CO2 emissions, like those from cars, are in fact heating up the planet.  Hope you all have working bicycles because in the future with no oil that's what we will all be riding!
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It is illegal because there is no way for the U.S. to regulate and tax it. People would just grow it in their backyards. This is the REAL reason, not because it is a "gateway" drug. (If people want to do drugs, it is because they choose too, not because they got high and the joint said "Hey, you like this? Try Heroin!!" I've smoked marijuana many times before, but it has never made me want to try anything else.)
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Jim Bender is a Canadian politician who supports legalization of marijuana. \nits is argued that is alcohol is legal so should marijuana.\nalso, they ay if it is legalized, crime will be reduced and other related negative externalities will be reduced such as black market.\n\nread this, an excellent summary http://www.usask.ca/education/ideas/tplan/sslp/values/legmarij.htm
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Federally it is illegal everywhere in the US. Medical Marijuana growing only works for as long as it doesn't attract the FBI or DEA's attention. Only local police won't bother you if that state has medical marijuana laws. \n\nAs to Arkansas, I really don't know. I don't see anything about them at NORML
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no..it is illegal in every state under federal law. If you start a med. marijuan cooperative, Bush's DoJ will bust in and throw all the terminally ill cancer patients in jail.
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alaska is a good training ground.
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Pot is illegal because it was competition for the cotton grower. During the civil war it was outlawed mainly because of its fibers. Hemp (Marijuana) can grow faster then most plants and produce much more usable material than the cotton plant. Hemp can grow up to a 30 foot tap root, in search of water. Hemp seed contains more protein then the soy bean. It can be used for so much other than the drug effects. Sadly its outlawed for these reasons. As long as DuPont and DOW chemicals are around hemp will be outlawed. Also take into account all the Drug companies who provide campaign money to all the senators who have drug laws approved and denied. If pot was legal maybe someone would not be on Prozac or Paxil. Alcohol will always be legal. It makes to much revenue. From the people who manufacture alcohol to the distributers. Then the bar owners who mixes a bottle and makes a couple 100$ on it. To the state who pops people for DWI's. Then lawyers who get paid to get you off. Then the insurance comp. who rapes you every year to drive. So alcohol makes to much money and will never be illegal regardless of how many people are killed and families destroyed by alcoholism. I smoke pot when I want, and don't really care what the Feds say. So put me in jail. That's where the good pot is anyways.
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No.  The gov't has no way of controlling it therefore being unable to tax it.  No money for the gov't = No legal weed for USA.  It is legal in some states for medicinal purposes, but you can still be tried federally for it.  (Which is so bizarre, I thought the state had supremecy in something like that).  It's just amazing that alcohol and cigarettes do SO much damage to your body and marijuana does virtually nothing & is sometimes helpful.  It helps with my anxiety.  Legalizing it would also put us in a different state from the rest of the world, there are countries in which you can lose your life for carrying a spliff.  Up until a couple years ago, England treated marijuana offenders the same way they treated cocaine/heroin offenders.