The voter initiative, approved in 1998 by 58 percent of voters, created Alaska's medical marijuana law, which affords a legal defense to non-registered patients and those who can demonstrate adequate need to possess large quantities of medical marijuana.

This bill, passed in June 1999, modifies the law created by Measure 8, removing legal protections for medical marijuana patients who refuse to register with the state health department, or who possess greater amounts of marijuana than authorized by state law.

The current, enforced version of the law.

Info about criminal statues regarding marijuana in Alaska, as well as decriminlaization and medical laws.