It's been legal to grow 24 plants and possess 1/4 dried bud in your home for almost 40 years now in Alaska. Here's what I've seen here in those 40 years: Almost everyone that smokes has NO interest in growing their own. Certainly less than 1% of tokers. Of the people that are interested in growing 99% of them have no interest in staying below the 24 plant count so they can $upply the 99% of tokers who refuse to grow. So even though you can legally grow 24 and under and possess 1/4lb in your home the prisons and probation offices are full of MJ offenders and it STILL feels like a MJ police state. A few years back this state also went medical MJ. So now with the card you can grow 6 plants and possess one oz. WTF? It's makes NO damn sense to most people. Now in November the people will vote on another way to make it legal and sold in stores like alcohol. The grow limit for the people under this new law if passed- 6 plants and 1 oz. WTF? The right of the Alaska people to grow and possess MJ within the privacy of their home is protected in the Alaska Constitution, they set the limits at 24 plants and 1 qp. ALL attempts to rewrite the constitution have been beat down. So the more legal it gets and the more legal they want to get it the less we can grow and possess. Sumbitches
That's because the rules are internally inconsistent, allowing exploitation all the way around. 24 plants with a 4 oz possession limit is ridiculous. Getting a pound from 6 plants isn't particularly difficult. If you grow at all, you're probably guilty of a felony. Better to buy it by the QP, have it delivered.
Other than that absurdity, pot is highly illegal in Alaska.
http://norml.org/laws/item/alaska-penalties
Your reading of the initiative is incorrect. Growers would have the right to hold whatever they produce, as in CO-
http://regulatemarijuanainalaska.org/about/#summary