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How to check an Alaska cannabis license

Look the store up in the Alcohol & Marijuana Control Office’s (AMCO) marijuana license search before you buy. It should hold a retail marijuana store license, and the name and address should match. If you can’t find the store, don’t buy there.

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1. Search AMCO’s license list

The Marijuana Control Board controls growing, making and selling marijuana in Alaska. Its staff office, AMCO, links a Marijuana License Search on its home page.1 Only a store with a retail marijuana store license from the board may sell marijuana to you.3

  1. Go to AMCO’s Marijuana License Search .
  2. Search for the store by its business name.
  3. Check that the license is for a retail marijuana store.
  4. Check that the business name and address match the store’s sign or website.
  5. Write down the license number. A store’s own label must show its license number, so you can match it later.3

If the search won’t load, or you can’t tell whether a store is licensed, ask AMCO’s licensing staff at marijuana.licensing@alaska.gov or call 907-269-0350 .1

2. At the store

  • The store must check your photo ID and refuse to sell to anyone under 21.3
  • 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.3
  • Sales happen at the store. 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.3 We found no state rule that allows home delivery.
  • Using marijuana in public is against state law.2 Some stores may have an onsite consumption area that the board has allowed.3

3. Check the label and keep the package

Products must be fully lab-tested before a store can sell them.3 The store’s label must show its name or logo, its license number, the estimated THC amount and five warnings, including “For use only by adults twenty-one and older. Keep out of the reach of children.”3

Products go in resealable, child-resistant packaging and must leave the store in an opaque package. Edibles can have up to 10 mg of THC per serving and 100 mg per package. A store can’t sell a product after the label’s expiration date.3 Keep the package in case there is a problem.

Hemp and CBD shops are different

A hemp or CBD shop is not a licensed marijuana store. Alaska’s Division of Agriculture says hemp products you eat, drink, inhale or put on your skin can’t contain any delta-9 THC and must be endorsed by the Division. Hemp-made delta-8 THC, delta-10 THC, THCA and HHC can’t be sold.5

If something doesn’t look right

You can file a complaint against an AMCO license holder online through AMCO’s AK-ACCIS system. The form lets you choose to file anonymously.4 You can also email AMCO’s enforcement staff at amco.enforcement@alaska.gov.1 If a crime is happening, contact local police.

File a complaint with AMCO · How to report a problem

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.

Sources

  1. Alcohol & Marijuana Control Office: home page Alaska Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development, Alcohol & Marijuana Control Office (AMCO) · Retrieved
  2. Alaska Statutes chapter 17.38 (The Regulation of Marijuana) Alaska State Legislature · Retrieved
  3. Alaska Administrative Code, 3 AAC 306 (Regulation of Marijuana) Alaska State Legislature (Alaska Administrative Code, as published on akleg.gov) · Retrieved
  4. AK-ACCIS (Alcohol and Cannabis Control Information System): public actions Alaska Alcohol & Marijuana Control Office (AMCO), AK-ACCIS · Retrieved
  5. 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

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