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”. 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. In Fairbanks, two marijuana retail stores are planning to open next week after final inspections are completed, the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reported. A third Fairbanks store plans to open in about one month.

Source: The Guardian October 29, 2016 15:50 UTC