Alaska Board Reverses Course, Tightens Residency Rules For Cannabis Businesses December 2, 2015 AggregatedNews Alaska, Policy & Legal 0 Comments Reversing an earlier decision, Alaska’s Marijuana Control Board restored more stringent residency requirements for those hoping to take part in the state’s commercial cannabis industry during a brief meeting Tuesday morning. The amendment adopted Tuesday reverts Alaska residency requirements to Permanent Fund… Read More→
Alaska Marijuana Board Will Revisit Last-Minute Residency Requirement November 24, 2015 AggregatedNews Alaska, Policy & Legal 0 Comments 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… Read More→
Local Marijuana Regulations Slowly Taking Shape in Anchorage, Alaska September 25, 2015 AggregatedNews Alaska, Policy & Legal, Uncategorized 0 Comments When selling and manufacturing marijuana is legal in Anchorage, where will pot cultivation facilities and marijuana retail shops appear? What type of advertising will be allowed? When will the businesses open and close? These are the types of questions now… Read More→
Last Word: A Few Things We Can Learn From How Alaska Deals With Legal Marijuana September 8, 2015 John Hollon Alaska 0 Comments Leave it to Alaska to show us all how to be smart and savvy in how we deal with regulations for legal marijuana. The 49th state, in all its wisdom, sets state marijuana policy through the Alaska Marijuana Control Board, and a… Read More→
Alaska Debates Whether All Marijuana Entrepreneurs Should Be Alaska Residents August 26, 2015 AggregatedNews Alaska, Policy & Legal 0 Comments Marijuana industry advocates are crying foul about a residency clause in Alaska's draft marijuana regulations that would require all business owners and investors to be Alaska residents. With the deadline for crafting Alaska marijuana regulations just three months away, the Marijuana Control Board must decide whether the… Read More→
Alaska Control Board Recommends Shuttering Marijuana Clubs August 11, 2015 AggregatedNews Alaska, Policy & Legal 0 Comments The Marijuana Control Board on Monday laid out its most comprehensive set of draft regulations yet for Alaska’s fledgling cannabis industry, including a proposal that would ban marijuana social clubs, even as owners of existing clubs spoke out against any actions by the state that… Read More→
New Alaska Marijuana Board Proposes 4 Changes to State Law July 6, 2015 AggregatedNews Alaska, Policy & Legal, Uncategorized 0 Comments FAIRBANKS — Alaska’s newly appointed Marijuana Control Board has proposed four changes to state marijuana laws. The board held its first meeting Thursday in Fairbanks. They signed off on statutory changes it wants the Alaska Legislature to change in last… Read More→
5 Appointees Named to Alaska’s First Marijuana Control Board July 2, 2015 AggregatedNews Alaska, Policy & Legal 0 Comments The five members who will make up Alaska’s first Marijuana Control Board were named Wednesday morning by Gov. Bill Walker. The Marijuana Control Board is tasked with crafting Alaska’s regulations surrounding legalized recreational and commercial marijuana. The board is made up of… Read More→
North Pole Rejects Proposed Ban on Marijuana Sales June 3, 2015 John Hollon Alaska, Policy & Legal 0 Comments Santa Claus already has a jolly reputation and soon more of the North Pole’s citizens may earn a jolly reputation of their own, after the city voted to reject a measure that would’ve put the kibosh on medical marijuana dispensaries.… Read More→
Alaska Wants Public Feedback on Proposed Marijuana Regulations May 21, 2015 John Hollon Alaska, Policy & Legal 0 Comments The public can now weigh in on Alaska’s first round of proposed marijuana regulations. Local option law and marijuana definitions are the focus of the first wave of regulations, unveiled at the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board’s meeting in April. The proposed… Read More→
Alaska Establishes Marijuana Control Board May 7, 2015 John Hollon Alaska, Policy & Legal 0 Comments A bill signed into law Monday creates a Marijuana Control Board that will take the lead in crafting Alaska's marijuana laws. Signed by Gov. Bill Walker, House Bill 123 creates a five-member volunteer board that will craft Alaska’s marijuana regulations. It will address a wide… Read More→
Alaska Legislature Struggling to Create Marijuana Control Board April 8, 2015 John Hollon Alaska, Policy & Legal 0 Comments The public has kept a watchful eye on the marijuana crime bill circulating in Alaska’s Legislature, but regulators and industry supporters say another piece of legislation in the works is far more important to the creation of a regulated marijuana… Read More→
Alaska House Passes Bill Clarifying Municipal Marijuana Regulations April 3, 2015 John Hollon Alaska, Policy & Legal 0 Comments JUNEAU, ALASKA --Â Alaska lawmakers on Thursday took a step toward clarifying who will regulate the budding marijuana industry. The House passed House Bill 75, which would help define a municipality's role in regulating marijuana businesses, add marijuana clubs to the… Read More→
Why Conservative Alaska Legalized Marijuana — and Who’s Next February 26, 2015 John Hollon Alaska, Policy & Legal 0 Comments On Tuesday, Alaska became the first red state to legalize the smoking, growing, and owning of small amounts of marijuana, bringing the decriminalization movement to a conservative stronghold. The frontier state narrowly approved the measure last fall, by 53 percent,… Read More→
How Alaska’s New Legalization Law Compares to All the Others February 25, 2015 John Hollon Alaska, Policy & Legal 0 Comments It officially became legal to consume and grow marijuana in Alaska on Tuesday. That means the state is the third to legalize the drug in as many years, but it is hardly the last. Voters in Oregon and Washington, D.C.,… Read More→