URINE TESTING INDUSTRY NEEDS TO KEEP MARIJUANA ILLEGAL TO MAINTAIN JOBS

The arguments for voting yes on 2 are so overwhelming that the best
the opposition can come up with is an ad hominum attack, "They're
using Outside money."

This is ironic because the leader of the opposition has a vested
interest in keeping marijuana illegal: He works for a urine testing
company. Because marijuana residue remains in one's system for weeks
and other drugs disappear within days if not hours, the urine testing
industry needs marijuana illegal so they can continue testing for it.

Thousands of Alaskans signed our petition in the freezing cold because
they knew that regulating and controlling marijuana would be good for
Alaska.

It will fix the problems with our medical marijuana law and undo
damage done when then-Sen. Loren Leman amended the medical marijuana
initiative to outlaw compassion clubs, making it so medical patients'
only access to medicine is the black market or to grow it themselves.

In Juneau, I know a young man who can't find a steady source of
marijuana to treat his glaucoma. In Douglas, a woman has stopped
growing medical marijuana because she's afraid of burning down her
home. Besides, what she grew wasn't very good and had bugs. So instead
of using marijuana and being self-supportive she's forced to use very
dangerous painkillers paid at taxpayer expense (Medicaid and Medicare).

Alvin Anders, chair

Citizens for Implementing Medical Marijuana

Libertarian candidate for Congress

Juneau