KTVA reports:
The Alaska Marijuana Control Board (MCB) members approved the first licenses for marijuana manufacturing facilities and retail stores at their Sept. 8 meeting. Destiny Neade, owner of Frozen Budz in Fairbanks, got one of each.
The approval of her licenses was met with applause by dozens of other industry hopefuls in attendance. "Everything seems really real right now. I'm opening this door and I'm really going to be infusing marijuana and making edibles," Neade said. "All the plans we've made are going to happen now that we've been approved."
There are four manufacturing facilities and 17 retails stores up for review during the MCB's two-day meeting.
Also at Alaska Dispatch News.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 11 2016, @02:04AM
I've lived in Texas and in North Carolina, and I never heard about jimsonweed. How exactly do you know how well known it is? Are you just reading Wikipedia?
You know what would be really funny, is if someone cultivated jimsonweed, opened a shop, and tried to sell it, but no one bought any, because, "Huh? WTF is that shit."
Controversy keeps cannabis popular!
(Score: 2) by Reziac on Sunday September 11 2016, @02:29AM
Because it grows wild all over the SoCal desert, so I've seen plenty of it. It's not particularly invasive (at least not under arid conditions) and fairly easy to control, so I imagine given its toxicity to livestock, it's probably been cultivated away in a lot of the more-settled parts of its range. Likewise you don't want it where honey is being produced.
The flower smells wonderful, like Easter lilies only stronger (and the scent can drift a considerable distance). Haven't seen any of the double-flowered cultivar like in the wiki article, tho.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datura [wikipedia.org]
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 11 2016, @03:04AM
So where are the startups selling jimsonweed instead to disrupt the heavily regulated marijuana industry?
(Score: 2, Interesting) by kurenai.tsubasa on Sunday September 11 2016, @03:13AM
Probably being out-competed by the startups selling nutmeg. Er, wait, that psychoactive substance is available in the grocery store and isn't nearly as dangerous as jimsonweed.
Nope, drug policy makes no damned sense. It's corrupt as hell and needs to be brought down.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 11 2016, @03:38AM
What makes no damned sense is these trendy hipster bloggers tripping over each other trying to get into the marijuana business and completely ignoring the opportunities for selling other psychoactive drugs. It's like they're all idiots.
Hey I know. Maybe I'll gain some insight into trendy people if I watch that new TV series "Mary and Jane" which is a complete ripoff of "2 Broke Girls" except instead of selling cupcakes they sell cupcakes full of weed. Seems like the people who make TV shows are all idiots too.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 11 2016, @04:25AM
Like fuck. They sell morning glory seeds on etsy.
Nobody wants jimsonweed. No demand, no supply. You stupid cunt.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 11 2016, @04:58AM
Well shit why isn't there any demand? There wasn't any demand for Uber before Uber so how the fuck did Uber create demand for Uber? Every stupid shitstain calls a fucking Uber now whenever they want someone to haul their drunk ass somewhere. Maybe the problem here is the fucking disruptive "thought leaders" haven't shit spammed the fucking blog-o-blog to tell the morons about unregulated drugs like jimsonweed??
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 11 2016, @05:08AM
You know, now I wonder. How many suckers can I sell jimsonweed to? I suppose I'll have to form an LLC in case anybody dies. I mean, if somebody dies and they try to fine me, I can just whinge about the free market, amirite?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 11 2016, @08:18AM
Every once in a while, it occurs to me, that the purported purpose of the SoyentNews is rational, or at least interesting, commentary on the Fine Articles. But then something like this thread occurs, and I think, Uber is using Datura to get AirBNB clients to room with Lizard people and Aliens from the 9th dimension? Yea, sounds legit! I'll just be over here, in my own private journal, waiting for the madness to blow over.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 11 2016, @08:12AM
I've lived in Texas and in North Carolina,
Really? Can't quite call it "living" if you have totally missed everything that everyone else who lived in the same area knew. Are you Francis? Are there possibly some things you do not know? Could you be ignorant, and stupid, and uneducated? Or are you just an idiot on the internet? Don't bother answering, none of us really care. Here, have some Jimson weed Brownies! Hell of a buzz! Seriously! Hemlock Pie for desert!