Board again considering cannabis café rules

Last update: August 28, 2017

Alaska’s Marijuana Control Board published proposed rules for cannabis cafés in August, with comments due no later than October 27. Please take a look and consider submitting written comments in support. For more information, please see the state’s public notice, available online here. While comments are not due until late October, we strongly encourage you to submit them early so that board members have time to review and consider submissions.

It’s important for the board to hear that the public wants adults to be allowed to consume cannabis at regulated establishments. The status quo is unworkable for the state’s tourists, and adult residents should not be relegated to private homes when alcohol consumers can choose from a variety of bars and restaurants. It is also important to ensure renters — whose leases may prohibit cannabis consumption — are not shut out of the freedoms Alaskan homeowners enjoy.

Under the current proposal, the state would allow cannabis flowers to be purchased and consumed on-site by vaporization or smoking, one gram at a time. Concentrates would not be available. Cannabis edibles and food that does not contain cannabis could also be available. A newly proposed addition to the rules would ensure cannabis café workers are not exposed to marijuana smoke while on duty.

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