Alaska Appeals Court "Just Says No" to Pot Case

The Alaska Court of Appeals will not reconsider its August decision
allowing adults to possess as much as a quarter-pound of marijuana
in their home.

In an opinion released Friday, the court denied the Alaska attorney
general's petition to rehear the case, which invalidated a 1990
voter initiative criminalizing all amounts of marijuana by calling
the resulting ban on personal pot use in the home unconstitutional.

The court rejected all the assertions the attorney general's office
made in arguing that the decision was flawed in the case of Noy v.
State, which resulted in Attorney General Gregg Renkes instructing
all state law enforcement agencies not to arrest or cite adults for
personal marijuana use in their home.