The initiatives are expected to shift from August to November because of a constitutional rule requiring 120 days between the end of the legislative session and votes on citizen initiatives. The legislature failed to gavel out by midnight on Sunday evening, meaning legislators worked into Monday, the 120th day before the scheduled Aug. 19 vote. One initiative would legalize pot for recreational use, while another would lift the minimum wage from $7.75 to $8.75 next year and by another dollar in 2016, after which it would continue to be adjusted for inflation. A third citizen initiative originally scheduled for August would impose restrictions on certain large mining projects.

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If passed, the marijuana measure would make Alaska the third state to legalize pot, following voter initiatives in Colorado and Washington. Alaskans approved medical marijuana in 1998 by a 59 percent to 41 percent vote. A 2000 initiative for recreational marijuana failed by the exact same margin that medical marijuana passed. Tim Hinterberger, who was behind that failed effort, said that shifting attitudes encouraged him and the other sponsors to try again this year.

“We were waiting to see what would be a good time to revisit it and the opportunity arose to have some outside support to help move things along,” Hinterberger, a professor at the University of Alaska Anchorage’s School of Medical Education, told The Post earlier this year. He and the other advocates in Alaska got help from, among others, the Marijuana Policy Project which played a key role in ushering along a successful legalization effort in Colorado. In October, Gallup reported that a clear majority of Americans favor legalization — the first time it found such results since tracking began in 1969.