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Alaska: Sitka and Petersburg ask Marijuana Control Board to loosen laws

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Submitted by Marijuana News on Fri, 02/19/2016 - 09:23

While many Alaska communities are looking to tighten restrictions on marijuana businesses, two Southeast cities are hoping for fewer constraints on the fledgling cannabis industry.

Petersburg and Sitka, two island cities in Southeast Alaska, have asked the state to reconsider its rules about buffer zones, saying they want more freedom to choose how far a marijuana business must be from certain facilities.

Under Alaska’s commercial marijuana laws, canna-businesses must be 500 feet from schools, churches, correctional facilities, and recreational or youth centers.

In some compact communities, that eliminates nearly the entire downtown area. Petersburg and Sitka are limited in where businesses can go; Skagway and Ketchikan are too.

“There really are only a few slivers of land where someone’s going to be able to have a business. … It’s going to naturally restrict the industry,” said Skagway borough clerk Emily Deach.

In downtown Petersburg, the rules leave just one building available for...

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