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Alaska Marijuana Board Will Revisit Last-Minute Residency Requirement

The Marijuana Control Board will meet again to take a look at Alaska residency requirements after an 11th-hour change to its rules was met with shock and concern by both the state and industry supporters.

On Dec. 1, the board “will discuss and may amend residency requirements” that were adopted last week, the board announced in an email.

While marijuana businesses must be 100 percent Alaska-owned, on Friday the board changed the definition of what it takes to qualify as an Alaskan.

Under the adopted regulations, a person must only fulfill Alaska voter registration requirements. All that is needed to do so is having a physical Alaska address and not being registered to vote in another state.

Board chair Bruce Schulte texted Monday that the changes “could be problematic for staff to implement with the resources at hand,” so it wanted to “see if there are some refinements we might look at.” [Read more at the Alaska Dispatch News]

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