{"id":33285,"date":"2016-03-29T08:02:27","date_gmt":"2016-03-29T15:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/kodiak-resident-applies-for-citys-first-marijuana-business\/"},"modified":"2016-03-29T08:02:27","modified_gmt":"2016-03-29T15:02:27","slug":"kodiak-resident-applies-for-citys-first-marijuana-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/kodiak-resident-applies-for-citys-first-marijuana-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Kodiak resident applies for city’s first marijuana business"},"content":{"rendered":"

KODIAK<\/strong> \u2014 A Kodiak woman is hoping to open the city\u2019s first commercial marijuana business.<\/p>\n

Janiese Stevens has applied for a cultivation facility in the city. She is the first person to submit an application to the Marijuana Control Board from Kodiak, The Kodiak Daily Mirror reported.<\/p>\n

The Three Sisters Co-op would be located near both a police station and an elementary school, but Stevens said she used a tape measure to check if she complied with state law.<\/p>\n

\u201cI took a 100-foot tape measure and measured the distances,\u201d she said. \u201cI\u2019m not a land surveyor, and I don\u2019t know who would do the final measuring, but I stopped at 600 feet and I was still a little bit away.\u201d<\/p>\n

Marijuana regulations require commercial operations to be 500 feet away from schools, recreation or youth centers, churches and correctional facilities.<\/p>\n

If approved, Stevens would be allowed to begin growing marijuana inside a warehouse on the property. She said if all goes without a hitch she should be growing in about six months. Selling in Kodiak would require a retail store facility and a separate state-issued license.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf all goes well with this application and license, it is possible that I\u2019ll look for a retail permit,\u201d Stevens said.<\/p>\n

Kodiak has not yet created local marijuana regulations. Two City Council sessions on the topic were canceled earlier this year due to bad weather, but Mayor Pat Branson at a meeting earlier this month said another marijuana meeting is slated for April.<\/p>\n

Stevens said she will work with the city as she readies her business.<\/p>\n

\u201cI understand that it\u2019s a new business entity,\u201d Stevens said. \u201cI\u2019m willing to work with the city and the borough in any regulations that they bring about.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Information from: Kodiak (Alaska) Daily Mirror, http:\/\/www.kodiakdailymirror.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

KODIAK \u2014 A Kodiak woman is hoping to open the city\u2019s first commercial marijuana business<\/a>. Janiese Stevens has applied for a cultivation facility in the city. She is the first person to submit an application to the Marijuana Control Board from Kodiak, The Kodiak Daily Mirror reported. The Three Sisters Co-op would be located near […]<\/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-33285","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\/33285","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=33285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33285"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=33285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}