Board creates new regulations on retail marijuana consumption

The board tasked with regulating Alaska’s nascent marijuana industry has approved draft regulations for how customers will be allowed to consume pot they buy in certain retail stores on site.
Marijuana for sale at a dispensary in California. (Photo: Dank Depot via Flickr Creative Commons)The proposed rules, which will go out for public comment, call for retail stores that will be permitted to have on-site consumption to have the consumption area cordoned off from the rest of the store by a