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Alaska
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Alaska’s Rejection of Onsite Pot Use at Stores Gets Murky
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Alaska marijuana regulators thought they had snuffed out onsite use of marijuana at retail…
February 6, 2017
Where U.S. States Stand on Allowing Pot Use at Vendor Locales
Alaska on Thursday rejected a proposal to make it the first state in the nation allowing consumption of…
February 3, 2017
Alaska Rejects Marijuana Consumption at Retail Pot Stores
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Marijuana regulators in Alaska on Thursday narrowly rejected a proposal that would have made…
February 3, 2017
81-Year-Old Italy Native First to Buy Legal Pot in Anchorage
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Possibly the unlikeliest customer of all became the first person to legally buy marijuana…
December 16, 2016
Anchorage Sees First Retail Pot Store Open
BY MARK THIESSEN ASSOCIATED PRESS ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The first retail marijuana store in Alaska’s largest city…
December 15, 2016
Next Milestone for Alaska’s Young Pot Industry: Paying Taxes
BY BECKY BOHRER ASSOCIATED PRESS ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — With legal marijuana sales underway in Alaska, growers will…
November 17, 2016
Santa Claus Supports Marijuana Legalization
In the small town of North Pole, Alaska, where they say, “the spirit of Christmas lives year round,”…
November 4, 2016
Alaska’s First Pot Shop Opens to a Long Line of Customers
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Alaska’s first marijuana retail outlet opened to a throng of customers, two years after…
October 31, 2016
UPDATE: Matanuska Thunderf**k, Anti-Pot Politics, and Nordhoff’s Ghost. A Sordid Tale From Alaska
UPDATE On October 4, voters in Alaska’s Matanuska Valley roundly rejected the local government’s attempt to impose a…
October 6, 2016
Alaska Marijuana Sales Close, Pending Opening of Test Labs
BY MARK THIESSEN ASSOCIATED PRESS ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Alaska is nearing its first legal sales of marijuana,…
October 6, 2016