{"id":23686,"date":"2015-11-20T21:06:00","date_gmt":"2015-11-21T05:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/alaska-pot-regulators-ok-on-site-consumption\/"},"modified":"2015-11-20T21:06:00","modified_gmt":"2015-11-21T05:06:00","slug":"alaska-pot-regulators-ok-on-site-consumption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/alaska-pot-regulators-ok-on-site-consumption\/","title":{"rendered":"Alaska pot regulators OK on-site consumption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>JUNEAU \u2014<\/strong> The board tasked with writing rules for Alaska\u2019s legalized marijuana industry has approved allowing some retail pot stores to permit on-site consumption.<\/p>\n<p>The 3-2 decision by the Marijuana Control Board on Friday followed a public comment process in which that issue was a hot topic.<\/p>\n<p>The initiative legalizing recreational use of pot by those 21 and older prohibited public consumption but didn\u2019t define public. Regulators adopted an emergency regulation when the law was taking effect that defined \u201cin public\u201d as a place to which the public or a substantial group of people have access. Some initiative supporters thought that definition too restrictive.<\/p>\n<p>The board amended the definition of \u201cin public\u201d to allow for consumption on site at certain retail stores.<\/p>\n<p>Colorado, Washington and Oregon, other states that have legalized recreational pot, ban public use.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JUNEAU \u2014 The board tasked with writing rules for Alaska\u2019s legalized marijuana industry has approved allowing some retail pot stores to permit on-site consumption. The 3-2 decision by the Marijuana Control Board on Friday followed a public comment process in which that issue was a hot topic. The initiative legalizing recreational use of pot by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[230],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-23686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23686"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=23686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}