Alaska Marijuana Board Moving Glacially on Drafting Regulations February 18, 2016 AggregatedNews Alaska, Policy & Legal 0 Comments JUNEAU, Alaska — The board tasked with regulating the Alaska marijuana industry provided guidance Thursday for yet-to-be-drafted rules to allow for people to use marijuana at certain stores that will sell it. Staff to the Marijuana Control Board had hoped… Read More→
Alaska Marijuana Board Debating Whether to Allow “On-Site Consumption” February 12, 2016 AggregatedNews Alaska, Policy & Legal 0 Comments With less than two weeks to go before the first entrepreneurs can apply for an Alaska marijuana license, the Alaska Marijuana Control Board on Thursday approved the forms and documents that await those who seek to grow, test, sell and… Read More→
Alaska Closing in on Governing Rules for Commercial Cannabis January 26, 2016 AggregatedNews Alaska, Policy & Legal 0 Comments All but two parts of Alaska’s rules governing commercial marijuana were approved by the state government Friday, with one section addressing criminal background checks and another providing exceptions to marijuana testing for growers in rural areas struck down by the state… Read More→
Anchorage Voters Will Consider Retail Marijuana Sales Tax in April January 13, 2016 AggregatedNews Alaska, Policy & Legal 0 Comments The Anchorage Assembly on Tuesday night approved a ballot measure that will ask voters in April whether marijuana retail sales should be taxed, starting at 5 percent. The ballot measure would authorize the Assembly to increase the tax up to… Read More→
Alaska City Looks to Ban Private Marijuana Clubs January 12, 2016 AggregatedNews Alaska, Policy & Legal 0 Comments FAIRBANKS — Proposed legislation in Fairbanks would make the city's first private pot club an illegal facility. The operators of The Higher Calling, which opened in November, could face a misdemeanor charge and a civil fine of $1,000 per day if… Read More→
Alaska Forecast Predicts Statewide Job Loss — Except in the Cannabis Industry January 12, 2016 AggregatedNews CBE Policy & Employment Law updates, HR and Staffing, Human Capital Management, News & Insights 0 Comments For the second time in nearly two decades, Alaska's yearly employment forecast is predicting job losses across the state. The annual report, published recently by the Department of Labor and Workforce Development, is predicting a net loss of about 2,500… Read More→
Alaska Set to Become First State With Pot “Cafes” December 25, 2015 AggregatedNews News & Insights, Retail 0 Comments Alaska is about to become the first state to have pot cafes where people can buy and consume marijuana, similar to Amsterdam. Right now, that's not legal in other states that have recreational marijuana. Brothers James and Giono Barrett, who… Read More→
Anchorage Are Looking at 5% Marijuana Sales Tax December 7, 2015 AggregatedNews Alaska, Policy & Legal 0 Comments Anchorage Assembly members are proposing an April ballot measure to create a 5 percent tax on future retail marijuana sales. Ernie Hall, chair of the Assembly’s committee on marijuana regulation and taxation, said Friday the marijuana sales tax should cover the… Read More→
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→
Alaska Board Votes to Allow Marijuana Consumption at Retail Stores November 23, 2015 AggregatedNews Retail 0 Comments The Marijuana Control Board voted to allow consumption of marijuana at retail stores, which, if approved by Lt. Gov. Byron Mallott, would make Alaska the first state to permit a regulated area for marijuana consumption outside of a person’s home or other… 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→
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→
Trade Group to Promote Marijuana Launched in Alaska July 10, 2015 AggregatedNews News & Insights 0 Comments FAIRBANKS — The Alaska Marijuana Trade Association hopes to be the dominant trade group for marijuana businesses in Alaska. The budding statewide trade association held a news conference Thursday, announcing five of its founding directors—including two from Fairbanks—who are drawn… Read More→