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.
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(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday September 10 2016, @10:53PM
Alaska...the next California?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 10 2016, @11:37PM
See the homeless bums with space heaters living under bridges and stoned out of their minds duuuuuuude.
(Score: 1) by tisI on Sunday September 11 2016, @02:02AM
We're beyond California dude.
We say "North to the Future"
"Suppose you were an idiot...and suppose you were a member of Congress...but I repeat myself."
(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday September 11 2016, @05:08PM
Better watch your mouth...you might get shitted up with hipsters and other faux-lumberjack poseurs, which are California's principal export.
You saw what happened to Austin...and you'd better learn fast!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 10 2016, @11:22PM
I'm disappointed not to see Charlene Egby's Alaska Cannabis Club [go.com] on the list of approvals.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 10 2016, @11:42PM
Did Charlene Egby remember to pay the necessary bribes?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 11 2016, @12:21AM
Apparently not. [theweedblog.com]
She was arrested and is facing trial.
(Score: 0, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 11 2016, @01:03AM
Attention seeker writes blog about courtroom antics. How very droll.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 11 2016, @04:18AM
Troll writes dismissive post of someone facing 24 years in prison at the hands of prosecutorial misconduct. How very mundane.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 11 2016, @04:41AM
Asshole layman alleges prosecutorial misconduct! Someone facing 24 years in prison should get a lawyer and quit whining about legal procedure on a weed blog. Someone making real money knowingly doing legally risky business should already have a lawyer. Clarifying the difference between corporation, limited liability company, and sole proprietorship is a job for a lawyer.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 11 2016, @06:08AM
I am impressed.
When you commit to being a passive-aggressive asshole, you commit!
No empathy required. Never had it, never will.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 11 2016, @09:21AM
I'm impressed! AC committing to an AC's committing to being something that doesn't actually exist, while a real human being is under the control of agents of a state? Well, maybe not so impressed. So now someone can be arrested for doing something legal! Oh, if only we were in Italy! Remember that time in the fountain? And people actually drink that water?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 10 2016, @11:32PM
I'm going to spend my entire dividend payment on weed!
Let's see which gets repealed first, Permanent Fund or Retail Cannabis.
Hoping to ruin it for everyone!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 10 2016, @11:59PM
can we stop pretending this plant is dangerous and needs massive regulations?
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 11 2016, @12:12AM
Maijuana needs to be regulated because it has a popular following of degenerates and a slacker culture surrounding its use.
Meanwhile Datura [wikipedia.org] is outright deadly poisonous and yet remains unregulated because almost nobody has even heard of it.
(Score: 3, Informative) by captain normal on Sunday September 11 2016, @01:14AM
It's fairly well know in the U.S. south and Mexico where it's called jimsonweed. Also a member of the family, Brugmansia or Angel's trumpet, is very popular in Gardens all through the southern U.S.,Mexico, Central America and South America. Of course it is a deadly poison, and it can kill, unlike Marijuana.
"It is easier to fool someone than it is to convince them that they have been fooled" Mark Twain
(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!
(Score: 2) by Aiwendil on Sunday September 11 2016, @09:11AM
Would be fun to see them try to make datura illegal, they are bound to mess that up to the point of banning all solanaceae :)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 12 2016, @03:04AM
Stop giving them ideas.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 11 2016, @03:12AM
Our ancestors were born here and made it to the middle class so I deserve to have some fun in my leisure time, but we don't need foreigners taking our jobs and being grossly mistreated by greedy corporations.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 11 2016, @03:46AM
The blacks stopped doing your bidding 150 years ago, so who's going to mow your lawn for you, when you're stoned off your ass all the time?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 11 2016, @03:53AM
I don't mind a declining standard of living, as long as everyone around me also has a lower standard of living. Except for the 1 percent, of course those assholes will do very well.
It's when people below me on the pecking order start thinking they have the right to get ahead just by working 60 hours a week and not slacking off. That cannot be allowed.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Sunday September 11 2016, @12:52PM
I am glad that they're decriminalizing & legalizing marijuana. The War on Drugs has been a costly catastrophe. I cannot abide the smell of pot smoke, though. Dead skunks, like those actual ones that get run over on the roads in the West where I grew up. Also, nothing says 'ghetto' like the smell of weed wafting down the block. So putting it in edible form instead would be my hope, as a non-THC user. Get your high, but leave the breeze unfreighted for the rest of us.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 11 2016, @01:38PM
I hear a lot of people complaining about the smell of dank weed, but I have always found it to be far more pleasant than the smell of cigarette smoke.
(Score: 2) by Aiwendil on Sunday September 11 2016, @02:10PM
Probably is because that cigarettes are to other tobacoo what fast food hamburgers are to a nice steak.
Seriously - cigarettes are made for volume only with only minimal considerations for taste, smell and paraphernalia.
And yes, I try to get smokers around me to at least switch to cigars to pipes (or at the very least start to wear portable ashtrays}