Katelyn Baker
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Both businesses are in the first week of a three-week required public notice period.
The notice informs the public of the businesses' intent to apply and allows the public to submit comments or objections to their local government, the applicant, and to the Alcohol and Marijuana Control Office.
The Marijuana Control Board has 90 days to grant or deny a license once the applications are submitted.
How the stores would get licensed marijuana or marijuana products, like edibles, if they do get a store license are still-to-be-resolved areas of local law.
There are no licensed facilities for growing, testing or manufacturing marijuana in the region, and without a road connecting stores to their products, businesses will rely on airplanes for transporting their merchandise.
The catch is that airplanes are under federal jurisdiction, where marijuana is illegal, flying over a state where it's not.
"Well, all of marijuana is 'operate at your own risk' to some extent," said Cynthia Franklin, director of the Alaska Alcohol and Marijuana Control Office.
She calls the state's marijuana industry "risky business."
"We don't have any idea how the federal government is going to react to the reality of Alaska, which is that if you want to have a (marijuana establishment) in an area of the state that's fairly inaccessible, you might be violating federal transportation rules," Franklin said. "But keep in mind, everything that we're doing is federally illegal,"
The U.S. Department of Justice has issued a memorandum saying that, in states that have created robust marijuana regulations, if you are a licensed establishment operating in full compliance with these regulations then you won't be a priority to prosecute.
But it offers no guarantees.
"If you look at the end," Franklin said, "it sort of disavows everything and says, 'we can still do whatever we want.'"
And the memorandum, as mushy as it is, could disappear under Jeff Sessions, President-elect Donald Trump's pick for U.S. Attorney General.
The marijuana business in Alaska is still young and in rural Western Alaska, untested.
With a new administration taking over the Justice Department, how the state and federal regulations will co-exist is still to be seen.
News Moderator: Katelyn Baker 420 MAGAZINE ®
Full Article: Two Businesses Applying For YK Delta's First Marijuana Store Licenses
Author: Anna Rose
Contact: 907-586-1670
Photo Credit: Katheirne Hitt
Website: KTOO Public Media
The notice informs the public of the businesses' intent to apply and allows the public to submit comments or objections to their local government, the applicant, and to the Alcohol and Marijuana Control Office.
The Marijuana Control Board has 90 days to grant or deny a license once the applications are submitted.
How the stores would get licensed marijuana or marijuana products, like edibles, if they do get a store license are still-to-be-resolved areas of local law.
There are no licensed facilities for growing, testing or manufacturing marijuana in the region, and without a road connecting stores to their products, businesses will rely on airplanes for transporting their merchandise.
The catch is that airplanes are under federal jurisdiction, where marijuana is illegal, flying over a state where it's not.
"Well, all of marijuana is 'operate at your own risk' to some extent," said Cynthia Franklin, director of the Alaska Alcohol and Marijuana Control Office.
She calls the state's marijuana industry "risky business."
"We don't have any idea how the federal government is going to react to the reality of Alaska, which is that if you want to have a (marijuana establishment) in an area of the state that's fairly inaccessible, you might be violating federal transportation rules," Franklin said. "But keep in mind, everything that we're doing is federally illegal,"
The U.S. Department of Justice has issued a memorandum saying that, in states that have created robust marijuana regulations, if you are a licensed establishment operating in full compliance with these regulations then you won't be a priority to prosecute.
But it offers no guarantees.
"If you look at the end," Franklin said, "it sort of disavows everything and says, 'we can still do whatever we want.'"
And the memorandum, as mushy as it is, could disappear under Jeff Sessions, President-elect Donald Trump's pick for U.S. Attorney General.
The marijuana business in Alaska is still young and in rural Western Alaska, untested.
With a new administration taking over the Justice Department, how the state and federal regulations will co-exist is still to be seen.
News Moderator: Katelyn Baker 420 MAGAZINE ®
Full Article: Two Businesses Applying For YK Delta's First Marijuana Store Licenses
Author: Anna Rose
Contact: 907-586-1670
Photo Credit: Katheirne Hitt
Website: KTOO Public Media
