Radio Ads Urge Defeat of Marijuana Bill
JUNEAU, ALASKA—With the House and Senate preparing to vote on whether or not to concur with the legislative maneuver that tacked Gov. Frank Murkowski's anti-marijuana bill onto anti-methamphetamine legislation, a pair of new radio ads has begun running statewide urging opposition to the measure. The commercials were created by Alaskans for Marijuana Regulation and Control.
The script of one spot now airing reads:
Governor Murkowski is obsessed with putting marijuana users in prison.
He has combined a bill that increases methamphetamine penalties with a bill that increases marijuana penalties.
He has already rammed this bill through the Senate in Juneau, and now he's trying to force the House to accept the bill without any hearings!
Mixing marijuana with methamphetamines? No hearings on a bill that will put marijuana users in prison? Increased jail time for marijuana possession?
Please call your House members and ask them to oppose Murkowski's anti-marijuana legislation. Go to regulatemarijuanainalaska.org for more information.
"This legislation is as bad today as it ever was—unscientific, unnecessary, and a serious assault on Alaskans' right of privacy," said former state legislator and retired deputy commissioner of corrections Bill Parker, spokesperson for Alaskans for Marijuana Regulation and Control (AMRC). "The House still has time to listen to Alaska voters and stop Governor Murkowski's move to rush the legislature into resuming a failed war on marijuana without even holding proper hearings."
A poll conducted in March by Goodwin-Simon Strategic Research found that Alaskans oppose the marijuana bill by 56 percent to 43 percent. Complete results of the survey are available at /pdf/AKpollresults.pdf.
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