{"id":30190,"date":"2015-12-07T09:01:38","date_gmt":"2015-12-07T17:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/ketchikan-prohibits-retail-pot-shops\/"},"modified":"2015-12-07T09:01:38","modified_gmt":"2015-12-07T17:01:38","slug":"ketchikan-prohibits-retail-pot-shops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/ketchikan-prohibits-retail-pot-shops\/","title":{"rendered":"Ketchikan prohibits retail pot shops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>KETCHIKAN \u2014<\/strong> Retail marijuana shops will not be able to open within Ketchikan city limits.<\/p>\n<p>Thursday\u2019s 5-2 vote came after public comment and a 20-minute discussion, The Ketchikan Daily News reported.<\/p>\n<p>Councilman Dick Coose voted in favor of the measure. He said residents can still grow and share their own marijuana if they are at least 21 years old, but that the city does not need to make the substance readily available by allowing shops.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI recognize the voters did it to themselves,\u201d he said. \u201c &#8230; Well sometimes, the voters don\u2019t always get it right, and this is one of them. I think it\u2019s wrong, because there\u2019s too many dangers out there. If the people are going to smoke it, they\u2019ve got that opportunity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Officials also expressed concern over state regulations and questioned the expectations for government revenue from taxing marijuana.<\/p>\n<p>Council members Judy Zenge and KJ Harris dissented. Zenge said unlike with home growers who share their marijuana crop, consumers know what they\u2019re getting from regulated retailers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe tell people (that) if they want to effect change, you need to vote, so they did,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd so, I don\u2019t think we get to pick and choose. They voted, let\u2019s do it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Harris said prohibiting pot shops means a potential loss of tax revenue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s OK for us to sell all the booze in the world and sell all the jewelry in the world &#8230; but a new product just scares the hell out of us,\u201d Harris said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KETCHIKAN \u2014 Retail marijuana shops will not be able to open within Ketchikan city limits. Thursday\u2019s 5-2 vote came after public comment and a 20-minute discussion, The Ketchikan Daily <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/\">News<\/a> reported. Councilman Dick Coose voted in favor of the measure. He said residents can still grow and share their own marijuana if they are at [&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-30190","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\/30190","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=30190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30190"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=30190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}