Alaska’s Marijuana Control Board is looking at several tweaks to its regulations, which would affect product testing, retail sign displays, and procedures for onsite consumption licensees.
The Board’s first proposed change would see the THC potency limit for edibles raised to 60 milligrams, up from the current threshold of 50 milligrams. It also would allow the director of the Alcohol and Marijuana Control Office to approve requests to allow a batch of cannabis that did not meet testing requirements to be turned into concentrate – with that concentrate also to be tested before being sold on the market.
Under the proposed rule changes, the director could also approve petitions for retests if the facility believes its test results were erroneous.
Another rule change would allow those who purchase and use cannabis at a licensed onsite consumption facility to leave with cannabis doggy bags, as the proposed regulations would allow these facilities to repackage a customer’s unused cannabis in child-proof containers. This would be a complete turnaround from the current rules, which do not allow users to leave with leftover product used onsite.
Another proposed change would require that conspicuous signs be put up at every cannabis retail location reminding customers not to consume cannabis in public or on boats or planes, and not to ship or transport cannabis across state and federal borders.
