State Seizes CBD Products from Marijuana Stores

Alaska Dispatch News
February 10, 2017

Enforcement officers with the Alcohol and Marijuana Control office seized CBD oil from several marijuana stores on Thursday.

Sara Chambers, acting director of the office, wrote in a release the oil fell under the state regulation definition of marijuana. Stores selling the products that hadn't gone through the state's testing and packaging requirements were violating state law, she wrote.

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Wasilla-based retail store Green Jar was one of the businesses from which CBD products were taken Thursday. Co-owner Caleb Saunders said two enforcement officers came by the shop and took thousands of dollars' worth of Charlotte's Web brand hemp oil.

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