Forum Newsfront
May, 1977
Alaska Coke Law VoidedAnchorage--A superior-court judge in Anchorage has ruled that the Alaska drug law wrongly classifies cocaine as a narcotic and is therefore unconstitutional. In dismissing indictments against six persons, Judge Victor D. Carlson said that if the law's penalty structure is based on pharmacological distinctions, it must correctly differentiate among drugs. He noted, "From the evidence, it is beyond dispute that cocaine is unlike the opiates and compares with the amphetam...
