At a meeting Thursday in Juneau, they will consider allowing marijuana retail stores statewide to provide separate areas of their businesses for onsite consumption. Retail stores must file applications for such a lounge, which includes how it will be separated from the retail operation and ventilated and what is the security plan. Many retail stores will also have to get waivers on local ordinances banning smoking. Critics fear an Amsterdam-like scene and pot spilling out of the retail stores onto streets and trails. Alaska Marijuana Control Board member Loren Jones believes operators expecting to make good money off tourists are being unrealistic.

Source: CBC News February 01, 2017 19:18 UTC