Marijuana Social Clubs Are Illegal, Alaska Attorney General Says

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Alaska Attorney General Jahna Lindemuth has issued an opinion stating marijuana social clubs are illegal, according to a Sept. 1, 2016, article in the Alaska Dispatch News.

The social clubs, which the Dispatch News describes as “unlicensed venues where people consume cannabis,” began to appear after Alaska’s decision to legalize recreational marijuana in 2014. Typically the venues offer a place for people to gather and smoke what they have brought with them, and sometimes free samples are offered.

But such clubs do not fit with current law, the Attorney General said.

“If that place is not a licensed retail marijuana store, consuming marijuana there is unlawful,” Lindemuth wrote in her opinion. She also said the free samples are illegal.

Even so, representatives of some marijuana social clubs are not changing their ways just yet.

“We want to be in conformance with the law, however, this is still an opinion…it’s not a statute at this point. We want to make that very clear,” Lee Haywood of Pot Luck Events, a club in Anchorage, said.

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