Alaska's first retail marijuana store set to open at 'high noon' two years after vote

Source: Associated Press

Alaska's first retail marijuana store set to open at 'high noon' two years after vote

Herbal Outfitters in Valdez comes after state law was passed that allowed people 21 and older to recreationally use pot

Associated Press in Anchorage
Saturday 29 October 2016 11.50 EDT

A store in Alaska was set on Saturday to be the first in the state offering retail marijuana sales, with a grand opening scheduled for what the operators were calling “high noon”.

The planned opening of Herbal Outfitters in Valdez comes nearly two years after voters approved allowing people 21 and older to recreationally use pot.

Herbal Outfitters’ offerings will mark the first time it is legal to buy pot under the voter initiative approved in November 2014. Passage of the measure made it legal under state law to possess up to an ounce of marijuana outside of a home.

The Valdez opening comes less than a week after the opening of the state’s first testing lab, CannTest, in Anchorage. The testing business opened on Monday after clearing regulatory hurdles days earlier. It will test cannabis flowers, edibles and concentrates.






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