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Home 🌿 Recreational Marijuana News 🌿 Alaska board OKs marijuana use in retail pot shops 🌿Alaska board OKs marijuana use in retail pot shops
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 private spaces.
The change allows for people to buy marijuana at a retail store and consume it in a designated area on the premises.
The board voted 3-2 in favor of the amendment, with Loren Jones, public health board member, and Peter Mlynarik, the public safety board member, dissenting.
The regulations will go to the Department of Law for a formal review before heading to Mallott's desk.
The amendment functions as a placeholder; specifics as to what these establishments will look like will be decided at a later date, director Cynthia Franklin said.
Local laws banning indoor smoking still apply.
The vote represents a major shift from the board’s...
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