{"id":8943,"date":"2015-12-15T09:01:41","date_gmt":"2015-12-15T17:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/ketchikan-city-council-to-revisit-marijuana-law\/"},"modified":"2015-12-15T09:01:41","modified_gmt":"2015-12-15T17:01:41","slug":"ketchikan-city-council-to-revisit-marijuana-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/ketchikan-city-council-to-revisit-marijuana-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Ketchikan City Council to revisit marijuana law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>KETCHIKAN<\/strong> \u2014 Ketchikan officials are set to take another look at regulations surrounding the retail sale of marijuana.<\/p>\n<p>The City Council will meet Monday to reconsider the council\u2019s Dec. 3 vote to prohibit the retail sale of marijuana in city limits, The Ketchikan Daily News reported.<\/p>\n<p>The vote meant that City Attorney Mitch Seaver would have to draft an ordinance that would have allowed Ketchikan to opt out of the retail component allowed by Ballot Measure 2, which legalized the personal use and retail sale of marijuana.<\/p>\n<p>Councilwoman Julie Isom was the one who had called for reconsideration of the vote.<\/p>\n<p>The decision came after the council was criticized for not stating in its agenda that a vote would take place. The agenda item only noted that there would be a \u201cdiscussion of whether to allow retail marijuana businesses within city limits.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Councilman Bob Sivertsen said if the council does vote to reconsider its vote for prohibition, he plans to have additional action deferred at least until the spring. He wants to put off the council\u2019s vote until state regulations are approved, which is some time by late February.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHolding off on permits until the regulations are out makes sense,\u201d Sivertsen said in a phone interview. \u201cI don\u2019t know if it will change anybody\u2019s mind, but it gives a proper process to the public and everyone a good chance to think about it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Information from: Ketchikan Daily News, <\/p>\n<p>www.ketchikandailynews.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KETCHIKAN \u2014 Ketchikan officials are set to take another look at regulations surrounding the retail sale of marijuana. The City Council will meet Monday to reconsider the council\u2019s Dec. 3 vote to prohibit the retail sale of marijuana in city limits, The Ketchikan Daily <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/\">News<\/a> reported. The vote meant that City Attorney Mitch Seaver would [&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-8943","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\/8943","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=8943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8943\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8943"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=8943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}