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Alaska cannabis rules: what to know and how to check

In Alaska, adults 21 and older can buy cannabis from stores licensed by the state’s Marijuana Control Board. Look the store up in the Alcohol & Marijuana Control Office’s (AMCO) license search before you buy. Licensed products must be lab-tested and labeled. We found no state rule that allows home delivery.

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CHSA does not test, certify or endorse products or retailers.

Official source

Alaska’s cannabis regulator: Alcohol & Marijuana Control Office (AMCO)

These links go to the regulator’s own website. CHSA does not copy or host license records, so you always see the official, current version.

What’s different in Alaska

Alaska law says marijuana use should be legal for adults 21 and older. The Marijuana Control Board controls growing, making and selling marijuana. Its staff office is the Alcohol & Marijuana Control Office (AMCO). Stores, growers, product makers and testing labs need a state license.

Cities, boroughs and established villages can ban some or all licensed marijuana businesses, by a local law or a vote. They can't ban adults from having and using marijuana as state law allows.

Using marijuana in public is against state law. Some stores may get the board's OK for an onsite consumption area. Stores must post a sign saying federal law bans taking marijuana out of Alaska, on Alaska waterways (including cruise ships) or on an airline.

Alaska also has a confidential medical marijuana registry, kept by the state health department. Registered patients get a registry ID card and must send in updated paperwork every year.

Hemp products follow different rules, set by the Division of Agriculture. Hemp products you eat, drink, inhale or put on your skin must have no delta-9 THC at all and must be endorsed by the Division. Hemp-made delta-8 THC, delta-10 THC, THCA and HHC can't be sold. Stores that sell hemp products need a state hemp retailer registration.

Licensed does not mean risk-free. Licensed products must be lab-tested before sale, and the state can hold or seize products that pose an immediate threat to public health.

Alaska rules at a glance

These are the main state rules for adult-use cannabis. Cities, boroughs and villages can add their own rules or ban stores. Numbers in brackets link to the law.

Alaska rules, with sources
Topic The rule Source
Minimum age 21 and older. Stores must check a valid photo ID, such as a driver's license, state ID card, passport or a tribal ID card that meets state rules, and must refuse anyone who can't show one. [1] AS 17.38.010(a), 17.38.020; 3 AAC 306.310(a)(1), 306.350
How much you can have Adults 21 and older may have 1 ounce or less of marijuana, plus what their own legal home plants produce, kept where it was grown. An adult may give up to 1 ounce and up to 6 young plants to another adult 21 or older, with no payment. A store may sell one person no more than 1 ounce of marijuana, 7 grams of concentrate for inhaling, or 5,600 mg of THC in all, per day. [1] AS 17.38.020(1)–(3); 3 AAC 306.355(a)
Growing at home Each adult 21 or older may grow up to 6 plants, with no more than 3 mature and flowering. No more than 12 plants (6 mature) may be in one home, no matter how many adults live there. Plants must be out of public view, secured, and grown on property you lawfully hold or have the owner's consent to use. [1] AS 17.38.020(2), 17.38.030(a)
Delivery We found no state rule that allows home delivery. Licensed stores sell on their licensed premises. A store the board has allowed to use a walk-up or drive-through window can take online or phone orders, but you must pay and pick up in person. [2] 3 AAC 306.305(a)(1), (3); 306.380(d), (f)
Required lab tests A store can't sell marijuana or a marijuana product until a licensed testing lab has finished all required tests. Required tests: potency (THC, THCA, CBD, CBDA and CBN), germs (Shiga toxin-producing E. coli, Salmonella and Aspergillus molds), and leftover solvents in solvent-based concentrates. Batches that fail must be destroyed unless the board allows them to be made into extract that then passes. [2] 3 AAC 306.340, 306.645(b), 306.660(a)–(b)
Labels The store's label must show the store's name or logo, its license number and the estimated THC amount. Labels carry five warnings, including "For use only by adults twenty-one and older. Keep out of the reach of children." and that marijuana should not be used during pregnancy or breastfeeding. Products can't be labeled organic or sold after the label's expiration date. [2] 3 AAC 306.345(b), 306.475(a), (c), 306.570(b)–(c), 306.310(a)(6)
Packaging At the point of sale, products go in resealable, child-resistant packaging that is hard for children under 5 to open. They must leave the store in an opaque package. Packages can't have images, like cartoon characters, that target people under 21. [2] 3 AAC 306.345(a)(3)–(4), 306.470(b), 306.565(b)
Edible THC limits Up to 10 mg of THC per serving and 100 mg (10 servings) per package. THC must be spread evenly, and multi-serving edibles must be marked into servings. [2] 3 AAC 306.560, 306.565(b)(2), 306.645(b)(1)(B)(iii)
Poison control Alaska Poison Control (Alaska Department of Health): 1-800-222-1222 . Free, confidential, 24/7. Call 911 if someone has trouble breathing or won’t wake up. health.alaska.gov

Alaska recalls

We could not find a public recall list from AMCO. State rules let AMCO staff hold or seize marijuana that may pose an immediate threat to public health, and batches that fail lab tests must be destroyed. 2 CHSA does not monitor Alaska recalls yet. If you think a product made you sick, call Poison Help, then tell AMCO.

How Alaska compares

Compare Alaska with the other states CHSA covers.

Sources

  1. Alaska Statutes chapter 17.38 (The Regulation of Marijuana) Alaska State Legislature · Retrieved
  2. Alaska Administrative Code, 3 AAC 306 (Regulation of Marijuana) Alaska State Legislature (Alaska Administrative Code, as published on akleg.gov) · Retrieved
  3. Alcohol & Marijuana Control Office: home page Alaska Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development, Alcohol & Marijuana Control Office (AMCO) · Retrieved
  4. AK-ACCIS (Alcohol and Cannabis Control Information System): public actions Alaska Alcohol & Marijuana Control Office (AMCO), AK-ACCIS · Retrieved
  5. Alaska Statutes chapter 17.37 (Medical Uses of Marijuana) Alaska State Legislature · Retrieved
  6. Industrial Hemp Program Alaska Department of Natural Resources, Division of Agriculture (Plant Materials Center) · Retrieved
  7. Advisory notice: prohibition of sale of certain industrial hemp products intended for human or animal consumption Alaska Department of Natural Resources, Division of Agriculture · Published · Retrieved
  8. Poison Control and Prevention Alaska Department of Health · Retrieved

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