Pubdate: Sat, 29 Nov 2014
Source: Alaska Dispatch News (AK)
Copyright: 2014 Nicholas Cassara
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Note: Anchorage Daily News until July '14
Author: Nicholas Cassara

ANCHORAGE SHOULD OPT OUT OF ALCOHOL

A few weeks ago, an Anchorage Assembly member from Eagle River
declared that she was going to ask the Assembly to consider having
Anchorage opt out of becoming a retail destination for Alaskans
seeking to buy marijuana. A community may "opt out" under the new
marijuana law, and I like this provision of the law.

I do not live in Anchorage, and do not smoke. I do wonder why the
Assembly member is not also going to ask the Assembly to "opt out" of
selling alcohol. Schoolchildren walking down the sidewalk are killed
by drunk drivers, hundreds of intoxicated people confront the police
in the streets during the middle of the night, and drunks panhandle on
the street corners. So much tax money is wasted on alcohol ... but
alcohol is OK in Anchorage?

- - Nicholas Cassara

Palmer 
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