Editor's Note: Greene has become affectionately known as the "'F*ck it, I quit' reporter" for proclaiming just that while on air as television news reporter. The raid on the Alaska Cannabis Club (ACC) is her second run-in with the law, as she was being investigated by the state Attorney General for issues related to a crowd-funding campaign for the ALC prior the passage of Alaska's Measure 2, which legalized marijuana. You can read more here. One interesting thing to me is the reference (by Greene) to the ACC as a medical dispensary–yet Green has said that no marijuana is sold (or dispensed) there. And I'm not sure why medical card holders would share cannabis (if they are even allowed to under state law)? As reported on Mediaite.com: "This is basically a medical marijuana dispensary,” Greene, the CEO of the Alaska Cannabis Club, told KTVA as she watched authorities raid the building. “We don’t sell any recreational marijuana, we don’t sell any medical marijuana. This is a place for card holders to come and share their own cannabis.”Â
Marijuana became legal in Alaska as of Feb. 24, however, cultivation, distribution and sale of marijuana or marijuana products by unlicensed individuals remains illegal, and legislators are currently still working out the regulations surrounding the new legislation. As a previous report regarding the raid on the ACC stated, "Law enforcement officials acted on a search warrant which said 'there is now being concealed property, namely: Marijuana, in cultivation or harvested, resins, oils, hashish or other THC derivatives, concentrates, edibles and equipment used in the extraction of THC,' among other 'illegal transactions.' Officials also searched for electronic statements 'used in or intended for use in or derived from trafficking in controlled substances.'”
She may be seeking higher office.
Charlo Greene, the Alaska marijuana advocate who quit her day job as a television reporter last year, is cotemplating an unofficial mayoral candidacy, she announced Sunday.
The politicking in the form of a write-in campaign comes one week after police raided her Alaska Cannabis Club in search of illegal sales of pot, Greene said at the tail end of a YouTube video condemning the accusations.
“Anonymous reports were all the Anchorage Police Department needed to knock down my front door, put a gun in my face and rob me and the eight medical marijuana card holders on site of our cannabis, our computers and our cars,” Greene said in the video.
