Alaska voters approved a controversial ballot measure Monday to create an aerial pothead control program. Supporters of the bill say it will help keep stoners at home where they belong, and opponents, who fought long and hard against the measure, were suddenly unavailable for comment.

Existing state helicopters already equipped for hunting wolf will be modified to track and shoot marijuana smokers from the air. No bag limits have been announced yet, but the Department of Fish and Game has announced open season on anyone seen wearing a hemp necklace, a Led Zeppelin T-shirt, or Birkenstocks.

Tourists from out of state immediately expressed outrage at the plan.

"You dumb whiteys, when will you ever learn?" said Jimmy Livingstone of Jamaica, who had just heard of the program. "From now on, I and I's on the beach mon."

As they ended a weeklong vacation, an opposition group, whose members hail from Maine, Vermont, Connecticut and Jamaica, vowed never to return to Alaska again.

"Don't let the door hit ya where the good Lord split ya!" said Gov. Frank Murkowski. Murkowski praised Alaskan voters in a press release this morning, and suggested hippie grease and woven dreadlock rugs as useful byproducts of the program.

"I can't wait to get my hands on all the leftover munchies!" Murkowski said.

Phoebe Hartfeldt, president of Friends for Potheads, said her organization is taking out ads in magazines and newspapers urging tourists to boycott Alaska.

"Potheads are beautiful, gentle animals," Hartfeldt said. "Popular mythology has reinforced mankind's unfounded fear of the pot smoker. It doesn't have to be that way."