Alaska Weighing Rules to Allow Use of Pot at Licensed Stores

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

Alaska Weighing Rules to Allow Use of Pot at Licensed Stores

By BECKY BOHRER, ASSOCIATED PRESS
JUNEAU, Alaska — Apr 27, 2016, 1:39 PM ET

Alaska could soon become the first state in the nation to allow on-site consumption of marijuana in some businesses that will sell pot.

While it's still not certain what they will look like, the legal pot stores are more likely to resemble a sample room at a high-end brewery than a dark and seedy dive bar.

Rules governing use were being hammered out by state regulators meeting Wednesday in Anchorage.

The first marijuana businesses aren't expected to be licensed until September — near the end of cruise ship season and a bit too late to cash in on tourism this year.

The Marijuana Control Board planned to consider Wednesday how to separate consumption areas in stores. There's also a question of what would happen to the marijuana products people buy to smoke or eat on the premises but don't finish.

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[Wilms]

1. I think pot use was an issue in Los Angeles dispenseries.

And I think it led to a lot of push-back. Didn't seem worth it.

Buy your product and go home. Somehow people buying a bottle of wine can handle that.

[Fozzledick]

2. The obvious answer is Dutch style cafe's.

Why reinvent the wheel when you've got a model that works?