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Eugene

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Wed Apr 27, 2016, 02:11 PM Apr 2016

Alaska Weighing Rules to Allow Use of Pot at Licensed Stores [View all]

Source: Associated Press

Alaska Weighing Rules to Allow Use of Pot at Licensed Stores

By BECKY BOHRER, ASSOCIATED PRESS
JUNEAU, Alaska — Apr 27, 2016, 1:39 PM ET

Alaska could soon become the first state in the nation to allow on-site consumption of marijuana in some businesses that will sell pot.

While it's still not certain what they will look like, the legal pot stores are more likely to resemble a sample room at a high-end brewery than a dark and seedy dive bar.

Rules governing use were being hammered out by state regulators meeting Wednesday in Anchorage.

The first marijuana businesses aren't expected to be licensed until September — near the end of cruise ship season and a bit too late to cash in on tourism this year.

The Marijuana Control Board planned to consider Wednesday how to separate consumption areas in stores. There's also a question of what would happen to the marijuana products people buy to smoke or eat on the premises but don't finish.

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Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/alaska-board-weigh-rules-pot-consumption-stores-38697922
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