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Initiative to legalize marijuana in Alaska receives enough signatures to qualify for a vote in August primary ballot.

Courtesy of The Washington Post:

An Alaska initiative to legalize recreational marijuana qualified Wednesday for the August primary ballot after gathering more than 36,000 valid signatures.

Lt. Gov. Mead Treadwell signed off on the petition after the Alaska Division of Elections found that the campaign had reached 36,030 signatures, nearly 6,000 more than required.

If approved by voters in the Aug. 19 primary, the legalization initiative would make Alaska the third state to allow retail pot sales for adults 21 and over. Colorado and Washington voters passed similar measures in November 2012.

“A bipartisan tidal wave of public support for regulating marijuana like alcohol in Alaska has pushed this initiative onto the ballot, and we will be running an aggressive campaign designed to build on that momentum,” said Taylor Bickford, spokesman for the Campaign to Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol in Alaska.

A Public Policy Polling survey released Feb. 5 found that 55 percent of Alaskans surveyed in favor of legalizing marijuana for recreational use, with 39 percent against.

I think this is it.

I think after this vote that we will have marijuana sold out of storefronts downtown just like they do in Colorado.

I don't smoke pot, and have not been high for more than forty years now, but I have to tell you that I am kind of curious about the pot brownies and marijuana lollipops.

Once its legal I might give those a try.

You know, for science.

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