Alaska regulators consider allowing pot-shop smoking lounges
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Alaska brothers James and Giono Barrett have a dream: that some of the scores of cruise ship passengers who crowd the state capital's streets each summer will one day use their shore excursions to kick back and light up a joint in a pot store lounge.
The Barretts own Juneau's first marijuana retail shop and want to tap into the $260 million or so that tourists dropped in the small coastal city last year.
Regulators could decide soon whether to make that happen. At a meeting Thursday in Juneau, they will consider allowing marijuana retail stores statewide to provide separate areas of their businesses for onsite consumption.
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