Alaska city officials seek to ban marijuana businesses
Officials in one Alaska city have taken steps to keep commercial marijuana out of Soldotna.
Soldotna City Council voted 4-2 Wednesday to direct city administrators to draft legislation that would ban marijuana establishments from operating within city limits, the Peninsula Clarion reported (http://bit.ly/2oH3qvt).
The council had previously placed a two-year suspension on pot businesses, which temporarily prohibited them until Jan. 1, 2018. With this vote, city administrators will start to draft legislation to ban them, present it to the Planning and Zoning Commission and have it go through the public process, Mayor Pete Sprague said.
Council members Lisa Parker and Tyson Cox voted against the measure.
"I'm certainly not trying to control people's lives or what they choose to do," Cashman said. "I just think Soldotna is pretty much, you know, a postage stamp, very small community."
Before the vote, Council member Tim Cashman argued that the city already...
