Anchorage

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…

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…