Pubdate: Sun, 18 Jan 2015
Source: Alaska Dispatch News (AK)
Copyright: 2015 Alaska Dispatch Publishing
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Author: Lindianne Sarno

GUIDANCE OF COMMON LAW SHOULD PREVAIL IN ALASKA

Weighing in on the Discreet Deliveries controversy, the common law 
developed over centuries, wrests protections for individual rights 
from governments. Alaskan law is based on common law. Under common 
law, a crime has two elements: injury and intent. To be arrested for 
a crime, you must cause an injury and intend that injury. In these 
twilight days between passage of the pot initiative and 
implementation of the law, Alaskans should adhere to the common law. 
Is Discreet Deliveries causing or intending any harm or injury?

No. No injury, no crime. Leave the businessman alone.

As a side note: Alaska's economy and tax base needs to diversify from 
oil. Cannabis will provide desperately needed tax revenues to our 
state. When implementation of the cannabis law begins, this 
pioneering businessman will be filling Alaska state coffers with no 
delay because he's already in operation. He may even choose to pay 
retroactive taxes.

- - Lindianne Sarno

Homer
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