Catalyst's Muldoon pot shop seeks state license renewal while on probation over fine

Catalyst Cannabis Company's Muldoon Road store in Anchorage is on the Alaska Marijuana Control Board's Nov. 18-19 agenda for its license renewal while it serves probation from an earlier state penalty. The renewal item is not new enforcement.

At its April meeting, the board fined the store $10,000 and placed it on 12 months of probation, running from April 16, 2026, to April 16, 2027. The board suspended a separate $1,500 fine for selling more than an ounce to a single customer, pending completion of that probation.

The case began with a complaint from a former shift lead, Richard Polly, first reported in October. "The shop has been covering up missing inventory, and even worse, glass has been found in joints," he said, according to the AMCO enforcement record. He alleged that marijuana from broken glass containers was moved to another store to be made into joints.

The state's final notice of violation, issued Feb. 19, charges 119 counts of inventory tracking violations and 15 counts of selling more than an ounce to one person in a day. It does not allege theft or diversion.

State regulators reviewed 4,211 package adjustments the store made in 2025 in Metrc, Alaska's cannabis tracking system. That is 1.75% of about 240,000 transactions that year. The store adjusted out 24,798 grams of flower, concentrate and trim, plus 772 edibles and 87 non-edibles.

Catalyst representative William Schneider blamed shipping manifests that were accepted twice, creating "phantom" inventory, along with staff turnover and inconsistent weighing. The company said it fired its retail general manager in October 2024, hired a Metrc auditor to reconcile inventory and adopted new procedures for audits and sales.