State deems Wasilla marijuana grow application complete, opening objection period

The Alcohol and Marijuana Control Office deemed MMW LLC's application for a limited marijuana cultivation facility in Wasilla complete on Thursday, Nov. 12. That opened a public objection period that runs through Dec. 12.

The licensed premises would total 880 square feet on North Paradise Lane, in the Meadow Lakes Community Council area of the Matanuska-Susitna Borough, according to the MMW LLC application packet. The facility would sell wholesale only and would not sell to consumers. MMW LLC has a three-year lease on the space that began Sept. 1.

Sole owner Anthony Olivieri also holds Matanuska Medicine Woman, a limited cultivation facility, and MMW Hash Factory, a concentrate manufacturer.

The application pledges no harmful pesticides and activated-carbon filters to control odor. Marijuana waste would be ground and blended with at least an equal amount of old soil. Video surveillance recordings would be kept for at least 40 days.

AMCO is sending the full application to the borough and the community council. The borough has 60 days to protest the license or waive protest.

Olivieri must appear, in person or by phone, at the Marijuana Control Board's Nov. 18-19 meeting. Borough, Fire Marshal and state Department of Environmental Conservation responses are still pending. AMCO told Olivieri the board may consider the application while approvals are pending. But no license will issue until those approvals arrive and AMCO enforcement staff inspect the premises.

No objections or other public comments had reached AMCO as of its Nov. 12 memo. The objection period stays open for more than three weeks after the board meeting.